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.

[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

A single quibble and one small button pushed.

[aegidian]

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

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?

Date

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one that managed to skim right past the date without reading it?

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