making some changes. Bad idea, I know, but our traffic is still very low.
There will definitely be on in permanent place soon.
The comments about the planner are interesting. I'm concerned that you saw
it as a "cart" (it really isn't) and that you've linked it to the button
sales (they're not, really - a button is the "ticket" to all the events, and
isn't even needed for the outdoor events). I'll have to look into that.
The nice thing about the event (for me) is that we don't do any plan
coordination at our side. The planner doesn't care if a million people add
a specific to their plan or if you add twenty events at the same time. In a
sense "planner" is a bad term since this doesn't really plan for you.
Instead you pick a lot of things that you might like and take it from there.
We encourage you to pick multiple events at the same time so you can choose
then. There is no conflict management or capacity management at all.
The events are all "First come, first serve" - the planner doesn't reserve
you a seat or anything. Due to the type of event this is (so many venues so
widely spaced) and the time (New Years Eve - possibly frigid, possibly
blizzard, etc) it's pretty hard to expect people to finalize a real plan
early.
Jim Davis
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From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:29 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Anybody Feel like Reviewing a Site?
Hi Jim,
Looks interesting. I was able to get it to generate an error by messing
with the url. Didnt seem to be a db error but a sitewide error catcher
might be a good idea.
It seem to work well. You might want to consider having a box called page
instructions or something at the top instead of just a blurb of
instructions. Those instructions didnt catch my eye so I didnt read it.
Then i was confused as to what to do (well, just a little bit). Sometimes,
you click a select box to get it to add to your cart, sometimes you click on
it to get it to delete from your cart. I'd rather have some indicatin that
says click here to go to this event and click here to remove this event from
your schedule. The cart to buy the button has that littel add to cart icon
that poeple are used to. Basically, I should understand it without having
to read instructions for every page.
Theres a bit of extraneous white space. Not sure if you care about that.
I think youre biggest worry though is that your logic is perfect for making
sure that everything coordinates and taht you dont have any extra people at
your venues and I cant really test that without some real time and access to
whatever back end you have.
Good luck! DRE
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:43 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Anybody Feel like Reviewing a Site?
The text-size changer widget doesn't seem to work right. I can upsize
the text, but can't go the other direction (IE 6 - WinXP).
To reproduce:
Click on the "About Us" link, then click the text-size widget to make
the text as large as possible. When the page finishes reloading, then
click a smaller font-size, and the page will reload with the same large
size (at least it did for me). However, if you reload the page from the
browser, it turns out just fine, although when I went back the home
page, the text was huge there.
- Jim
Jim Davis wrote:
>We've just completed the first major 2003 launch of our event site at
>http://www.firstnight.org and I was hoping for some opinions.
>
>First Night is the nation's largest and oldest New Year's Eve festival of
>the arts and community. The event normally draws upwards of 2.5 million
>people into Boston and is the "big three" largest annual events in revenue
>(the Fourth of July and the Boston Marathon being the other two).
>
>Although begun in Boston First Night celebrations are now held in over 200
>cities worldwide.
>
>The main new part of the site is the "New Year's Eve" celebration.
>
>The whole artist and events/planner functionality is done (for the first
>time this year) using a cached CFC model as the datastore. I'm pretty
>pleased with the results. This is my first use of CFCs and while I'm
>pleased with the results I'll be rebuilding the system in January...
there's
>just too many "if I had only known" moments.
>
>For the techies the very, very bottom of the page features the tickcount
>from CF (counted from the beginning of Application.cfm to the end of
>OnRequestEnd.cfm).
>
>This is the seventh year that I've done the site. The designer, Karin
>Horlbeck (who is by far the best designer I've ever worked with) has also
>done the site for the seven years. We've had two or three others in any
>given year but the team has always been very small.
>
>Any comments? Ideas? Confusions? Tech gods forbid, errors?
>
>I know that a lot of the artist/event material is bare - we're working on
>that now (there was more than a little confusion about who would be doing
>what) and I hope to have it fleshed out within the next week.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Davis
>
>
>
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