BiCon 2002 web pages

[ciphergoth]

I'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?

but any comments you have on how the site might be improved would be most welcome. Thanks!

http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/

Comments

[djm4]

YAFIYGI:

/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.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

YAFIYGI - eh?

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!

[djm4]

"You Asked For It; You Got It" - WYSIWIG as implemented by, f'rinstnce, raw TeX.

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).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Ah, I used the more sophisticated COL tag stuff. I can't be arsed doing each individual column.

And Mozilla's rendering is pretty much unrelated to Netscape 4.x...

[lovingboth]

I suspect it's officially ok for people to pay on the door. We'd get pissed off if someone then didn't turn up and didn't pay though, especially if they booked accommodation...

... hmm, time to check out NoChex et al.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be officially OK to book accommodation and pay on the door.

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.