I need some beta testers!!!

[Entity]

Ok, guys, I just got this indirect complaint about our hike's webpage...grrr.



<< >
> One more thing, my father was talking with the owner
> of one of the companies that he is involved with in
> some dispute about the hike. The once back in New York
> said a number of the links on our page were not
> working, and that the page was a little dificult to
> navagate. Something else to think about.
> >>



Please check out my webpage and see if you agree that the page is too difficult to navigate, links don't work, etc.

www.hikefordiabetes.org

Thanks.

Rob

 

[Windogg]

Everything looks fine on IE5. No difficulty navigating or broken links.

Windogg

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Ditto with Netscape 4.76

 

[thirdkind]

Seems pretty straightforward to me, Rob. I find what I would expect to find when following the topmost navigation, and all the links seem to work. Oddly, though, the first time I clicked on the top nav I got an error. Could be a flaky hosting service (seems a tad slow overall).

My boss at work is fond of saying that there's no such thing as stupid users, just stupid interfaces. I, however, happen to disagree If one guy says it's difficult to navigate, and everyone else says it's fine...

 

[IBhacknU]

Honestly Entity... this is the wrong crowd to ask. Find some WEBTV users, and you'll get the true answer

 

[Entity]

Thanks guys. I'll tell my friend to consult this page, and if he wants the website to be fixed, HE can do it (he doesn't know jack about design or programming).

Rob

 

[uncouth]

I would recommend making your loading background to be something other than that green, like the tan color. It is a bit annoying when switching pages... Aside from that: nice page

 

[DataFly]

I found no problems other than a touch of slowness.

 

[Soybomb]

Looked good to me as an opera user....all linkx I used were functional.

 

[BiggieN]

everything is working for me. i used mozilla and ie. that tan type color just isn't aesthetically pleasing. maybe you might want to consider that, but all in all it works and it seems to be in a logical layout.


on a side note, best of luck and keep us updated. your sponsors would love it if all of us here at AT-OT give you some click traffic.

 

[yllus]

sully frowns deeply as he senses a disturbance in the Force

Entity, your site does not support Lynx. This is inexcusable! Seriously though, take a minute or two and add a little hyperlinked table of contents between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES> tags.

Otherwise...that Flash intro takes far too long to play through, but loads quickly enough. Take some frames out of that if you can. Everything else looks fine, though having the little table of links between pages in the top quarter of the screen is a little awkward. But that's just a minor quibble.

 

[perry]

Heh.. I have a friend on WebTV.. I'll email him later and ask him to take a look at the page and see how it looks. If it works on WebTV, it'll work on anything.

edit: Just downloaded the WebTV viewer from developer.webtv.net and the page won't come up at all. The redirector service is giving an error.

All the links are working for me. Maybe something about the way you made the Javascript links aren't workin on someone's AOL 3.0 browser.. Who knows.. See if you can get a better error report.

 

[Entity]

Ok, a few side notes:

the <noframes> page is located elsewhere (domainzero forwarding), so I can't support Lynx.

Also, I'll consider revising the flash intro; I'm really not sure that I agree with you (BiggieN), though, when it comes to the color choice - since the page is mainly dedicated to the outdoors, I wanted that sort of feel, and when I put it up for a vote on AT, that color was the one chosen by the most people.

Thanks for the advice, though; I really appreciate all the help.

Rob

 

[kami]

Looks good to me, I like the design.

Maybe put a set of text links on the bottom of all your pages..maybe that'll make it easier for whoever made that comment...

Home | Hike Info | Bios | Gear List ..etc.

the current navigation seems fine to me though.

 

[Shuxclams]

The flash stuff was pretty long (slow?), but I don't see nay problems. BTW did the Adventure 16 guys help you out any?



SHUX

 

[WoundedWallet]

Couldn't find anything broken, and outside those counters links, the pages looked very good. I have a bone with counters, specially those that insist on showing up after being blocked by a software firewall.

But I noticed one thing that I don't know whether you did it in purpose or not. On your http://www.hikefordiabetes.org/donate.htm page, the top image spans 700 pixels (<img src=&quot;logo4800.jpg&quot; width=&quot;700&quot making the page wider than the other ones, and too wide for a 800x600 screen. On the other pages I noticed that you had the width=&quot;550&quot;.

So if you did that in porpose fine, if not, you may want to shrink it.

Regarding being difficult to navigate, that's just not true. Good job!

 

[WoundedWallet]

Ok, one other thing that could trip some browsers.

On your Main Page, the title &quot;The Hike for Diabetes 2001 - Updates &amp; News&quot; may occupy two lines if the user's default font is arial or anything larger than 12 points.

When that happens the corner gif does not fill the whole cell and you have a green gap under the gif.

Solutions could be;
1- Use style sheets for the font
2- Or easier, make the corner gif cell's background the same color as the gif.

I think this will work.

 

[Sluggo]

All worked fine in IE5...only thing that seemed odd, was that the pics of you werent clickable to a larger version. I looked at it late at night, and the whole site just zipped by, no slow load times at all. I didnt look at all the links on the gear page, maybe one of those was slow or busy when the complainer was checking it.