Incomplete and Unprofessional Corporate Websites

There is a worrying trend with regard to corporate websites for companies in Botswana. It looks like it still hasn’t sunk in the modern business world, customers and potential clients shortlist their service providers on the basis on the information they get in the service provider’s website.

But so far, most websites are either gluttered with Flash Animations or moving objects of one form or another.

I have outlined some of the offenders in this regard with partially done, or Under Construction websites with signs of a man pushing a wheelbarrow and flashing red for danger sign indicating that “MEN are at WORK”

Botswana Television - http://www.btv.gov.bw/

BTV

What can we say about BTV, a government supported TV station, that has been around for more than 10 years and yet they still can’t run a website. What’s with that? It’s really a disgrace, at least if they can’t do it; why don’t they just get someone else to do it?

PEEPA - http://peepa.co.bw/

It looks like this site existed at some point; If you do site:peepa.co.bw in Google you will get a list of pages that were previously indexed when the site was ‘alive’.

Duma FM - http://www.dumafm.co.bw/

To make matters worse, the DUMA FM’s under construction website has got the contact details of the company that is designing the website for them rather than thecontact details of the DUMA FM radio station. Maybe it’s the web designers who are taking advantage in this case, but who can blame them? It’s not a good practive.  What the web designers are doing, they are basically getting “free” marketing.

CEDA Botswana - http://www.ceda.co.bw

They used to have a fully functional website; I can only guess that, they are doing a re-branding of the old website. Why they decided to take the old one offline before they have completed the new design is anybody’s guess.

CEDA offline

The Digital TV Migration (Godigital) Website - http://www.godigital.org.bw/

Despite not being under construction, the title pages for most of the pages in this websites are all set to “Untitled Document” which makes the site just a tiny bit unprofessional.