2012 Stellafane News
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- Web Site Updates in response to Convention Survey
[2012-Feb-03] Yes, we really do read and study the surveys we periodically pass out at convention (Thanks, Kris Larsen!). Your webmaster has been studying the sections related to the web, and I have made a few changes based on the feedback, with more to come.
One request was to have a street address for Stellafane that could be input to a GPS or Google Maps. That is now on our Directions page and Maps.
Another request was to make hyperlinks more obvious to those that are color blind, and we have just changed our link style to include non-color artifacts to identify them.
There were a lot of convection specific requests, which will be addressed when we create the 2012 convention pages in a few months. I was glad to see the positive feedback on the new Stellafane East map (Thanks, Mike Patterson). I'm working on figuring out how to send out registration confirmations, which was a popular request (I guess folks are nervous, but I'm not aware we have ever lost a registration, and I do follow up with all problems encountered, which are not many).
Of course, its a bit hard to reconcile or act on "Awesome Website" followed by "Cluttered, Simpler Navigation". I know it is far from perfect, but I do appreciate the comment "Get's Better Every Year" - that is what I try to do.
I remind everyone we write the web site to current web standards, and do not put any effort into testing compatibility with old browsers (although we do nothing to try to break them, either). If you are using current versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari, you should have a good experience here. Internet Explorer continues to lag in implementing many current standards and the web site looks the worst on it, although it is still fully functional. And if you are still on XP, you have an old version of IE that is really not so good. Consider using one of the other browsers that keep up with evolving technology better. I do look at the web site on my Android tablet, and other members check on iOS mobile devices - overall our site is surprisingly useable on these small screen devices, even though we don't specifically optimize for this screen size.
Thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated, and we do try to use it to make this site better...Webmaster Ken
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