I do not know who designed President Ahmadinejad's blog, but they did not do a good job.
The Good Stuff
Easy to remember URL.
Nice use of AJAX.
The Bad Stuff
Using Visual Studio .NET 7.1 and a table-based design to create the page. Speaking of which, the site should degrade gratefully if JavaScript is disabled.
Spelling errors. While I can [...]
For a relatively long time (more than a year), this blog used a modified version of the Kubrick theme that ships with WordPress. Since I had invested a substantial amount hacking on the fixed-width theme to make it fluid[1], I was hesitant to switch, especially since the majority of the themes I saw were going [...]
Update: Matt Gline noted that UC stands for "Undergraduate Council," not "University Council." I feel suitably chastened.
The Undergraduate Council's website is not only ugly and outdated, it is horribly broken. In the latest in a long history of technical glitches, the online application for nominations for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize (awarded for [...]