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

Impressions, thinking aloud...

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

I'm with Giles on the partying. Is BiCon 2002 organising parties? As opposed to 'social events'? Previously parties were things that happened in addition to the socialising, after the ball or disco. Have you got spaces booked for parties?

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...

[djm4]

Um ... what Marcus said. It's possible that I'm just being an pompous, uptight asshole, but the joint emphasis on 'discussion' and 'partying' on that page feels somehow wrong to me. I like to party, but not everyone does, and the word has slightly too many 'getting a bit drunk and rowdy' connotations for me to be happy with it as an informal synonym for 'socialise'.

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.