[20719] in APO-L
Re: New APO.org website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liston Bias)
Fri Jul 16 16:55:13 1999
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:45:02 -0400
Reply-To: Liston Bias <bias@POBOX.COM>
From: Liston Bias <bias@POBOX.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199907161853.OAA32651@taz.csnet.net>
> In my professional opinion, one item which I am truly not happy about the
> new site is it's navigation. After you select an area to proceed to the only
> way to continue to a new area is by backtracking to the main page.
> Navigation is one of the top items of importance in site design. When I
> first visited the site it took me a moment to figure out that you had to
> return to the main page in order to continue to a new area.
Navigation seems to be more intuitive for finding information. The layout
does has a better feel to it. It does, however, take a little while to
find the information you are looking for since pages load slower & must
get through x pages to reach page with the information you need/want. I
suggest a site-specific search engine. I rarely navigate anything anymore
unless the site lacks a search engine. Am I the only one that uses search
engines?
Also, it has been mentioned numerous times that this is a much better
"recruiting" page than the one before. I agree that its presentation is
better, but still not clear where the good prospective information is. I
see 'About APO' which obviously gives some good info. Going to 'Programs'
has some info on our cardinal principles but that was not what I thought
it would be. The 'FAQ' has a subset of Q&A document but why not post the
whole thing? As a prospective pledge, I couldn't give a hoot who the
National President was or who founded us. I wanted to know what Alpha Phi
Omega stood for and what they were doing. What about a tab somewhere for
potential pledges with links to fraternity goals, activities, and maybe
even a slide-show presentation of why/how/where join...
Just thinking out loud while I chill. I like the change in the homepage
and think it is a positive change to have someone at national office
maintain it. I see us moving to a near paperless organization somewhere
in the not-to-distant future.
Regards,
Liston
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