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Tim Moore

Managing Director

Loves: Snow & Mountains, Noisy Music, West Ham United
Hates: The Circle Line, Tea, Dishonesty
Inspired by:
- My granny
- Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
- Apple
- Raphael's drawings
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- www.snow-forecast.com
- www.whufc.com

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Nice work if you can get it

30 May

I read this morning that the BBC web site came in at £110m. One hundred. And ten. MILLION! That's £36m over budget. What!?

I happen to like the redesign but how on earth can any web site cost that much to develop?

The largest site I was ever a part of was for the DTI and cost £1.2m and took nearly two years to build. It used the most state-of-the-art technology around at the time and was truly enormous. But we could have developed that site a hundred times over with the budget the Beeb consumed.

I guess we were a part of that £110m somewhere with our work for Robin Hood, Lily Allen and others and I can tell you that our budgets were tightly managed! So someone, somewhere has been on a nice little earner!

Posted by Tim on 30 May 08, at 9:03 am