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

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

It's looking good, not easy to get lost, loads fast (although I cant really say that as I have adsl) and is nice and clean and easy to read.

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

[djm4]

Either that, or a 'quick access' set of links at the top and bottom of the page like this:

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.

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good idea. I kow it's lazy, but hitting a back button is a hassle - it involves moving your mouse off the main area of the page.

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.

[djm4]

That's one reason why I love Opera's 'gestures', and am constantly trying to use them when I'm saddled with MSIE. Dragging right with right mouse button to go back and left to go forward becomes intuitive really quickly, I find.

[skx.livejournal.com]

I love Opera's 'gestures'

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/

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Done. And web users are right to be "lazy" - it's our job to make their job easier.

[babysimon]

You might want to put this at the top as well - lots of sites have it there, and it can get lost at the bottom. You can never have too much navigation.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Tried that, looks confusing. Now navbar is at the top and bottom is just a "home" link, which seems to be quite nice. With the navbar at the top, clicking through all the pages is really easy.