Suggestions to Improve the Web-site
Nov 10th, 2007 by anthonyb
Hey everybody,
If you have any suggestions for the web-site that you think could make it better (different colours, images, structure, and so on) feel free to post them here. Thanks in advance!
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This new website seems to be very user-friendly, well organized, simple/neat and easy on eyes :-). A few suggestions :
1. Would it be better to make the content on present front-page (first page?) more concise? I remember when I was searching online for a TM club to join, I bearly scrolled down for the whole page…
2. After making the front page more concise, how about adding one item: ” what distinguish us from other TM clubs? “. We are already pretty unique in many ways, just need to specify those features and “say it loud” ( “to be different or to be dead”).
3. As to the pics on front page, is it possible to have a rolling side show on the top? It would be very eye-catching and space saving.
Thanks for the ideas Ying!
1. If you have any suggestions for making it more concise, let me know.
2. We can do this.
3. Something like this is possible - I’ll look into it. We need pics.
I’m VERY impressed with this website! It must have taken a lot of your time, Anthony, to make it look so tremendous! I only have 1 comment: The “Recent Posts” is handy for the current Chair to post the meeting theme, but past remarks like “this week’s theme” aren’t automatically removed, which may cause confusion. I don’t know how much trouble, etc. it would be to set up a separate Post for current Chair remarks only.
Carmen
Here’s another thought. The Chair can write “Theme for November 15″ instead of “This week’s theme”.
Thanks Carmen - I’ve made that change.
Ying, I’ve now added the “What distinguishes us from other TM clubs” section. If anyone has suggestions for what to put there, let me know.
Anthony, good work distinguishing us from other clubs, but we’re more “friendly” than “friendy”. Just teasing!
It was a mix of “friendly” and “trendy” at the same time.
Thanks, fixed.
Thanks for taking my suggestions, adminanthony.
To make the front page more concise, maybe we can merge “what distinguishes … ” and “who are we” together? What shall we call it after the merge? Any suggestions?
As to pics for the slideshow, I remember Peter and Jenny have some pictures from club kayaking outing and area contest…
One tech question: How can we edit published blog/post? I just found some typo of my previous post…
As to the voting result for club main features from last night’s TM meeting, top 4 features are : friendly/supportive; fun; Excellence. The voting mainly served the function of advocating every member to participate club business, now it is up to the VP-PR to choose whatever to use on our ad/website.
just noticed the time showed on the post is 3 hours later than actual time of posting it…
Thanks Ying … “What distinguishes … ” and “Who are we” have been merged to just “What distinguishes …” I’ve sent out a call for pictures … and I’ve fixed the post time thing!
More suggestions welcome!
To edit a published blog or post, log in, and then click the “Edit” or “edit this” link on the blog post or comment (usually it’s near the top).
Hi Anthony,
I’ve tried on most of the pages. Overall impression is: great! All the functions related to meeting planning are well kept as we discussed and the interface is very user-friendly. And I like in particular the ‘writing guidelines’. We can add email correspondence into it as well to make it complete.
As to suggestions of improvement, here are my thoughts:
1. I’d like to see more colors and fonts on the website, some flashing effects at major links or titles to draw attention and help faster track of information. - I do understand this was a draft only for structure and function review. Just think I might as well shoot everything at once.
2. have the contact email appear as a hyperlink so a person can click into an email directly - if technically possible.
3. the front page picture is catching, and it just got me an idea - we can get a pool of pictures and change it according to special occasion, like four seasons, holiday themes, a nice shot of our club events, or even a work of our members (i.e. Peter’s photo shots), that will bring a very up-to-date spirit of our club and reflecting our uplifting club image.
4. both the TM int’l logo and our ‘owl’ could be bigger. I’m thinking of using our club image ‘owl’ on the left hand, Night vision in the middle, and TM logo on the right, so we make everyone happy but fit most people’s left to right reading habit - club character gets enhanced first. The owl is already very cute, but again, I hope to get a more colorful one and make it large enough.
To conclude, I think this is already a very high quality starting line, and we’ll have lots of time to perfect it. Great job, Anthony!
Thanks Anthony for all the work! The merge of two items on the front page, calling for pics and now our post time is not east coast time anymore!
I just realized I have a few pics (still in my camera) of club kayak outing last summer, will send them out after I get back.
and the little owl graphic is very cool.