BiCon 2002 web pages
Apr. 3rd, 2002 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothI've been spending a little while obsessively tweaking the BiCon 2002 web pages, and I'd be interested to know what people think of them. Questions to ask yourself include
- Is it easy to see where you are and navigate your way around the site?
- Is the most important stuff the most prominent, the easiest to find?
- Does it all load fast enough?
- Was there anything confusing or misleading about it? Did you find yourself taking any wrong turns?
- Does it work OK with the browser you prefer?
- Are there any little irritations (or big ones) that I could fix?
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Date: 2002-04-03 06:25 am (UTC)/book.html - the pricing table could probably use alternately shaded columns to make it a bit more obvious which price goes with which income bracket. Pricing error should probably go immediately below the table rather than at the bottom of the page (since it's then nearer the information to which it applies).
Typo:
"...say a little about this year's event"
You could offer an on-line booking form, and get people to send cheques separately. I know the risk is that they don't send the cheque, but you can pester them by e-mail until they do, and a lot of people find web forms less hassle than printing something out and writing on it. It's a bit easier to transfer the info to Excel, too.
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:33 am (UTC)Shaded columns: I tried, and couldn't make it work. Eventually, I found that what I'd done worked under IE, and I've stopped trying - if anyone knows how to make it go under Mozilla, let me know.
Typo - fixed.
On-line booking form - planned. Trickier though!
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:44 am (UTC)Don't know what will and won't work for Mozilla, but putting bgcolor="#dddddd" (say) as an attribute in a {td} tag works on most things (although it's very hard to persuade Netscape-derivitives to reduce the spacing between cells to zero).
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Date: 2002-04-03 08:49 am (UTC)And Mozilla's rendering is pretty much unrelated to Netscape 4.x...
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:59 am (UTC)... hmm, time to check out NoChex et al.
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Date: 2002-04-03 08:12 am (UTC)Last year's team got a Kagi account, but never used it; dunno if it can be passed on to us. I'd need to do some CGI scripting to make this go, though it's not that hard. Mission number 1 is to have a form you can fill in, submit, and then print out, to save all that tricky pen-wielding stuff. Then I'll adapt it to do Kagi.
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Date: 2002-04-03 06:32 am (UTC)Only thing I might suggest is a previous next type link between the section pages as I'm sure a lot of people will want to flick through all the content
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Date: 2002-04-03 06:47 am (UTC)Home | About | Booking | News | Venue | Helping out | Links | Contact us
with the appropriate text for the page you're on unlinked, to give an instant visual clue to where you are.
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:21 am (UTC)Interestingly enough we were taught about this in a marketing course I did a few years ago - web pages should aim to keep a users focus of vision on the centre of the page - what you are trying to sell - if they have to drift up to the back button to navigate then they spend less time reading the actual page and concentrating on your text.
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-03 07:35 am (UTC)I don't know if you use Mozilla at all, but if you do it can support
gestures too:
See here:
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/
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Date: 2002-04-03 07:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-04 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-05 05:14 am (UTC)A single quibble and one small button pushed.
Date: 2002-04-03 06:42 am (UTC)http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/about.html
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/book.html
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/news.html
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/venue.html
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/help.html
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/links.html
- could stand to gain a border="0" element to the logo, it looks cruddy on some browsers (Mozilla, iCab)
- looks okay in IE 5, Opera (Mac OSX versions)
http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/about.html
- I flinch slightly at the emphasis on partying. For a couple of reasons,. Number one is that a number of first-time (and old-time) people are party-shy and might consider this an excuse to not come. Two is that I would prefer to play down that element while negotiating with the venue for the next BiCon (personal preference). If it were down to me (and I appreciate it ain't) I'd change it to "meeting up with other bisexual people" or "getting together and having fun with" or something like that.
Re: A single quibble and one small button pushed.
Date: 2002-04-03 07:34 am (UTC)Impressions, thinking aloud...
Date: 2002-04-03 08:06 am (UTC)You can guarantee a party to all the attendees? I mean, sure you can promise them there'll be events they can attend, but promise them they'll party?
And why is that word in bold, drawing attention away from the other things that happen? Are they dull and secondary?
Re: Impressions, thinking aloud...
Date: 2002-04-03 08:26 am (UTC)Hmmm. Re-read previous paragraph and realise that I am being a pompous, uptight asshole, obviously. I'm just not sure that means I'm wrong.
Date
Date: 2002-04-04 12:31 pm (UTC)It's not on the about page (where I assumed it would be) but is on the main index page. I only actually found the date by pure accident when I skipped back a few pages.
Gordon
Re: Date
Date: 2002-04-04 03:36 pm (UTC)