This post is inspired by this posting on YCombinator, widely panning the election commission’s deplorable IT infrastructure.

I can understand non-familiarity with backend infrastructure design, but why is the website interface so, so bad. This is an even bigger case for doing the design for a website out in public, similar to how ConceptShare works.

There are an incredible number of grid based CSS frameworks and javascript frameworks which simplifies readable website development. And using these frameworks are completely independent of which server-side frameworks you use - Java, ASPX, .Net, etc.and is actually much simpler to use(as part of the aforementioned frameworks ) than the server side code itself.

CSS and Javascript are simply used within the web-page itself and are used by the browser of the user to display/render the page more effectively. In fact there is a recent CSS framework to improve web-readability.

I really hope the National Informatics Centre starts cleaning up its website interface - as it stands it is a huge wastage of time and effort and frankly a drain of taxpayer money