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Kele
7/17/2008 2:18:01 PM | Just to give you guys a heads up - the forum will be offline this weekend.
We are transitioning to a new kind of website and will be conducting live testing this weekend.
Eventually, this forum will be locked and the discussion group will be changed to a different format.
I know that change is hard and never appreciated, which oddly enough is one of the reasons for this change. Many of the Association members have had difficulty in understanding the forum concept as it is presented here. We are looking into different ways to maintain the discussions while making things easier for those who are not as comfortable with technology.
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win-win
7/17/2008 3:32:52 PM | Hi Kele:
1. Hope the work works-out, and thanks for the efforts.
2. Will this week-end's work have any fix-its for:
- - I've been unable to get to the Site and the Forum on-and-off about 50% of the times I try over the past 2-weeks, and
- - I've not been able to reach the Gallery for about a month.
Thanks,
Win
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win-win
7/25/2008 7:15:43 PM | Hi Kele:
1. Can you please advise: How'd the week-end tests go; Where's this Web-site 'transitioning' to, and who the 'we' you noted are ?
2. I'm aksing because I believe Association members and Web-site Users besides me are concerned:
- - How will Association members and Users have their ideas, wishes and gripes about this present Web-site 'heard' before any 'new' Website design is implemented;
- - How will a 3rd generation Web-site design fix things our present (2nd generation) Web-site design did not, when it replaced our 1st generation Web-site;
- - How 'wayfinding' will be paramount - 'technology comfort' and 'change' are not the problems. Web -- designs that are 'Geek-ese' based instead of 'User-ease' based, are the problem.
3. My own laundry list of Web-design concerns include:
- - How will 'Old Forum' threads, active and archive, be preserved and remain User-accessible. (And how will the 5-pages of inappropriate items be purged);
- - How will my present inability to navigate from the 'Forum' page back to the 'Homepage' be fixed. (I don't think it's me because I've clicked on everything);
- - How will periodic and persistent inaccessibility of the 'Gallery' and 'Forum' be fixed. (These are major Website resources and attractions);
- - How will page-to-page banners or tabs, be made available again on all pages, to aid User orientation, wayfinding and navigation (like the 1st generation Website and 'Old Forum' - they work); and
4. 'Tech' has the industry-wide problem of simply failing to serve the client, in the language of the client, in this case the User. Just look at any software manual or even the National Archives' Web-site - undecipherable and un-navigatable, respectively - techies doing 'geek-ese' instead of User-ease.
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EDanaII
8/5/2008 9:19:59 AM | So, Kele?
It's been more than a week since Win asked these questions. Are you going to answer them? You do run a service after all, for the 401st and for people on the web interested in the 401st. They have a right to know whether or not they can rely on the services they have come to depend on.
Just wondering...
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Phoenix
8/7/2008 1:37:08 PM | Well, I don't understand any of the techno babble of the previous posts but it seems to me that since the forum was closed down for the weekend it has gone remarkabley quiet! am I missing something here?
improvise, adapt, overcome
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EDanaII
8/8/2008 2:14:05 PM | Could just be coincidence, Dale. Or it could be that nobody knows for sure "which way to jump" because of the pending changes. But in either case, I can do no more than speculate. 🙂
Ed.
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donaldbyers
8/8/2008 4:04:58 PM | I am not trying to offend anyone but I am locking this Topic for further dicussion. Please do not make another topic because I have locked this one.
I can understand the concern about what is going on but due to the people who spend their time trying to keep this site operational on a no budget no pay concept they are doing what they can. Please bear with us at this time of transition.
Thanks Moderator
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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