<div dir="ltr">You have my axe, Tanya. 8 years of QA (web and mobile), 5 of design.<div><br></div><div><div>Would your redesign accommodate department heads making edits? That is something we desperately need and it would probably make your life much easier, going forward.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought: I use Wordpress for a bunch of my clients (it looks like a few other cons' sites run on it) for things like registration, sales and competitions; our backend is unusually complicated, but I'd be willing to bet there's a way to make it work.</div></div><div><br></div><div>MDF.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Strategicon Department Heads <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deptheads@strategicon.net" target="_blank">deptheads@strategicon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Message From: Tanya Aldrich <a href="mailto:taldrich@strategicon.net">taldrich@strategicon.net</a><br>
<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">To all interested in our website,<div><br></div><div>First, I don't take offense to John's comment.<br><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Who is going to volunteer to be on a regular tester list?</div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Venting my professional issues. Who's going to help me help the con?</div><div><br></div><div>Tanya</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 17, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Strategicon Department Heads wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Message From: John Paiva <a href="mailto:Evil5757@aol.com" target="_blank">Evil5757@aol.com</a><br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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
<a href="http://gameconventioncentral.com" target="_blank">gameconventioncentral.com</a> and look at some of the other convention websites, see
how they look and interact. </div>
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