[Deptheads] Orccon 2015

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I playtested for Interplay, I can test the site for bugs on Firefox and
Chrome, at least.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Tanya Aldrich  taldrich at strategicon.net
>
> To all interested in our website,
>
> First, I don't take offense to John's comment.
>
> 1. If I don't know that there is an issue (specific info good), then I
> don't know to fix things. I have fixed a number of things and implemented
> several requests from both patrons and staff this year, but they didn't
> require extensive time to implement without breaking things. And some still
> do break things because, when I ask for testing I don't get enough people
> testing enough things.
>
> 2. Who is going to volunteer to be on a regular tester list?
> Mostly need Windows testers (IE, Chrome, Firefox), and at least one tester
> for Mac covering Safari (the latest), Chrome and Firefox (in particular the
> latest OS version as I don't currently have hard drive space to install the
> latest).
>
> 3. Most of the work needed to get the site on par with other sites
> requires multiple consecutive hours of concentration. We talking about
> weeks, if not months, worth of work without external distractions. I get
> one day a week that mostly qualifies. I want to do this work; I can't
> afford to do this work. In order to get the time to do this work, I need
> daycare for James to be payed for.
>
> Venting my professional issues. Who's going to help me help the con?
>
> Tanya
>
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Strategicon Department Heads wrote:
>
> Message From: John Paiva  Evil5757 at aol.com
>  As an example, I will start with the problem that I hear everyone
> whisper about constantly, has been brought up occasionally, and still not
> fixed. We have the worst website of any convention in the country. It is
> hard to navigate, looks like it's from the 90's, has too many failing
> links, supervisors can't update information for their area of jurisdiction
> are just a few of the problems I have heard about constantly, both before
> and after the updating we have been doing. In this age, the website is THE
> face of the convention to the younger people we are trying to get to start
> coming to the convention and it MUST be attractive to them and make them
> say "I need to check this out." I was asked during Orccon if I knew how to
> do a couple of things on the website and I didn't even know you could. I
> couldn't find the links/dropdowns/etc. to do what I need to do in the
> future.
>
> This is not an attack on Eric, Tonya, or anyone else. No one doubts their
> work and dedication to trying to get this problem solved. It is a fact that
> what has been done hasn't worked and MUST be dealt with now. Go to
> gameconventioncentral.com and look at some of the other convention
> websites, see how they look and interact.
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