Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dana
well, I remember using the old site to find a link to a different city's first night. Easy to find, loaded well and really looked good. This is ... well, horrible is not to strong a word. On 11/18/05, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's 3:15 am, I've just done a 400 mile round trip an

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Vernon
It's 3:15 am, I've just done a 400 mile round trip and I'm tired. I looked at that site and had to close my browser. I'm so tired and the site is so bright it actually caused physical pain in my eyes... As I recall, the original site was far superior in its presentation and far less clinical whils

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dana
yeah I know - white text on a purple page with a white watermark. Yay. I know I would not use this site unless i had to... they should probably expect a distinct drop in participation. On 11/18/05, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first thought, with that big button, is that it was

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dana
I hate it. Let me guess, the person doing it does three color priniting? On 11/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... after doing the site for 10 years First Night Boston decided to go > with somebody else (the specifics are that a grant auditor forced them to > move a single servic

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Ihrig
ok... looks like some thing i would do.. maybe its time to find a career in production no, wait i am doing that now... ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.hous

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jim wrote: > What do you all think? Well ... if you changed the colors, graphics, menus, and navigation design ... nope. It would still suck. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency b

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Cameron Childress
I seem to remember in that past that this site gets alot of traffic right around new years. So much so that it's been a topic of optimization advice on CF-Talk before. Knowing this, the total homepage size is 325442 bytes, including 21 files (including one 404)... http://www.websiteoptimization.

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Ken Ketsdever
If only we knew the contact email address. Then it would appear as though someone at firstnight was sending the bad link. -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:00 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: End of a (personal) Era

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era > > Also fun: > > http://www.firstnight.org/Pages/Home_Email.aspx?page=%2fx

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dawson, Michael
Yaa!!! -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:32 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era Extra will. Some should be Someone. How'd I do? How&#

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Scott Stewart
Don't look at it if yer hungover sas Scott A. Stewart ColdFusion Developer GNSI 11820 Parklawn Dr Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 770-9610 -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:12 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: End

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Doom
Wow. Shiny and uninformative! I keep waiting for a "skip intro" link --Ben Jim Davis wrote: > Well... after doing the site for 10 years First Night Boston decided to go > with somebody else (the specifics are that a grant auditor forced them to > move a single service provider for print, on

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Raymond Camden
Also fun: http://www.firstnight.org/Pages/Home_Email.aspx?page=%2fxPages%2fHome_Signup.aspx You can send your friend a bad link. (Ok, so who would do that besides me. ;) On 11/18/05, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The form is easy to break. Just enter in a simple JS sc

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Ken Ketsdever
Will will On -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:18 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: End of a (personal) Era I submitted a comment to the web site. This is the response: "Thank you! Some will will get back to y

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
anyone spot the two mistakes in this text? > > M!ke > > -Original Message- > From: Chris Stoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:14 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era > > Truthfully, it looks like w

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dawson, Michael
1:14 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era Truthfully, it looks like what you would get when you go to a print shop for your Internet needs. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer supp

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dawson, Michael
minutes to let the afterimage subside. "In the end, we have users that browse our site for hours." Ouch, my eyes! M!ke -Original Message- From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era Bl

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
Yep. They got a website designed by a print house. Have they given any thought into how those images are going to hurt when they start getting hammered? Did the organizers learn nothing from your 11th hour tuning and rewrites? Bastards. I rely on that site. I hate the interface, the colors and

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Chris Stoner
Truthfully, it looks like what you would get when you go to a print shop for your Internet needs. On 11/18/05, Jillian Koskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, it is on the list of the least usability friendly sites I've ever > been on. > > >sucks. horrible. worst site ever. > > > >On 11/18/05,

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Marlon Moyer
Blue text on an orange background! Why didn't I think of that. /me goes off to change all my background colors to orange. On 11/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... after doing the site for 10 years First Night Boston decided to go > with somebody else (the specifics are that a

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dawson, Michael
ent. M!ke -Original Message- From: Chris Stoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:08 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: End of a (personal) Era sucks. horrible. worst site ever. On 11/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well... after doing

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Ray Champagne
I don't really like it. VERY boring. The text is hard to read - and who reads freakin full-text web sites anymore? Someone should let them know that we're in the 10th + year of the web, there are all kind of cool things like images that can be dropped onto the site. What is this, lexis nexis

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Jillian Koskie
Well, it is on the list of the least usability friendly sites I've ever been on. >sucks. horrible. worst site ever. > >On 11/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk a

RE: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Dawson, Michael
My first thought, with that big button, is that it was an election site. I like the bright colors, but where is the love? Where is the dedication? Where the fuck is the ColdFusion? Damn! Can anyone else read the text on the secondary-level pages? They chose very poor color combinations for te

Re: End of a (personal) Era

2005-11-18 Thread Chris Stoner
sucks. horrible. worst site ever. On 11/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well... after doing the site for 10 years First Night Boston decided to go > with somebody else (the specifics are that a grant auditor forced them to > move a single service provider for print, online and radi