Web Designers Needed. Relocate to Zimbabwe.

I feel almost appre­hen­sive about post­ing this one. I mean, I’m mak­ing fun of a whole gov­ern­ment here. I won­der, if they get wind of this will they send hit men to Sev­erna Park? You’ll all know if I stop post­ing and you hear no more tweets. I doubt it. They obvi­ously don’t take their web pres­ence seriously.

It appears that times are tough in Zim­babwe. Web design, while not a pre-requisite for mem­ber­ship in IGO’s, should prob­a­bly have a higher pri­or­ity than at least a few other things, like, say churn­ing out mon­e­tary notes. As maybe three of you know, Zimbabwe’s annual infla­tion rate is over 2 mil­lion per-cent. Yeah, it looks like a typo, but it isn’t.

The offi­cial site of a whole coun­try sucks

So what’s wrong with the site? Well, look at it. It uses all that web tech­nol­ogy has to offer, if today is Sep­tem­ber 3^rd, 1995. It uses frames and tables. That’s just awe­some, isn’t it? I’m going to chalk up the hor­ri­bly slow load times to the fact that the server is all the way across the pond and most likely hooked to a phone line in some kid’s mom’s base­ment (do they have base­ments in Zim­babwe?). I think the biggest image is about 60KB, but I waited about 20 min­utes for the whole page to load (not to men­tion the sub pages).

I absolutely love the tourism page. Blue with lots of pix­els and lit­tle float­ing bits. I love pix­els. Anti-aliasing is way over­rated any­way. That page will be load­ing until I write the next review, so…

I really wish I could spend more time learn­ing about the Zim­babwe gov­ern­ment, but they don’t make that kind of time. Maybe I’ll go to the CIA fact book to fill in the gaps. Too bad it’s all gaps. As it turns out, though, there is a very favor­able exchange rate if you’re a semi-capable designer look­ing to get some inter­na­tional expe­ri­ence. As of this writ­ing, the USD / ZWD exchange rate is 1:1510. That means that if you got paid $663 US you’d be a Zim­bab­wean mil­lion­aire with a bit to spare. Pretty sweet if you ask me.

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