Ive been a big fan of Vir Sanghvis writing for years, and am glad to see he is one of the first prominent Indian Journos to dip their feet on the web.

However I am also terribly disappointed in the technology of the site, not the content but the technology. I am no open source zealot, most of the work our company does has Microsoft technologies behind it and I’m a big fan of the .NET platform in general. However I do also believe that every job has the right tool, and in this case by using a .NET based CMS Vir Sanghvi has done himself a disservice. Based on the sites content an implementation of Wordpress or Joomla would have been much easier(and dare I say much less expensive), and provided the content in a far superior way.

Some specific problems:

1. The RSS feed is just wrong. The data in the feed has nothing to do with the page linked to.

2. The next page link uses an AJAX control that does not take you to the top of the next page.

3. The form for Lets Talk does not work.

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Lets hope these are teething issues, but my experience has been that for content focused sites Open Source CMS’s do a better job.

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