This is what a $200,000 website looks like

10 points by mjankowski ↗ HN
http://www.sn.pl/en/SitePages/Main.aspx

Made for Polish Supreme Court. So what you think?

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Should I saw 'wow'? Or am I missing something?
No, but "Wow, that's a rip-off" would fit.
Holy Shit, 200K for this. Daimn !

I could have built a better one for the half price.

I was just wondering if this is a norm to do websites at a cost of a nice apartment.
The US gov't would pay $400k.
Ok... i've seen this a couple of times now.. someone please explain to me the point of base64 encoding parts of the page and saving them in hidden fields? It's not as if you can't decode, rewrite then re-encode that. Maybe it's just an Active Server thing?

Also, now I feel like an idiot for building Wordpress sites with custom themes and plugins for under a grand. Clearly I need to get me a government contract :/ .

That's the way ASP.NET works when using WebForms. If you notice, the entire page is always a Form.
Oh. Ok. I thought it was some kind of page validation thing.

I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason for it that's not insane.