Your critique of SEATEC Web Site

[Mark]

Although I probably shouldn't admit it, I designed and coded the web site for the Seattle Tuba-Euphonium Conference (SEATEC), http://www.SEATEC.org. I am hoping to get some constructive criticism of the site. (Or, you could just tell me why pistons are better than rotaries.)

Based on the gloriousness of the web site alone, I am hoping to attract several hundred thousand attendees. With the added draw of our guest artists, we could break the one million mark. This could be the tuba Woodstock of our time. (Pardon me, the tuba-euphonium Woodstock.) But, if you attend, please no naked bathing in the fountain outside the Music Building.

In particular, please try out the "Donate" button on the home page. If only half of the TubeNetters donated $1, it would make a big difference. BTW, we won't object if you donate more than $1.

[Mark]

Hello?

[skeath]

OK, here goes.

The look-and-feel is good, and the menus work well (in Firefox; didn't test [ugh] IE).

index.html
remove this comment:
<!-- Begin PayPal Donation Button --------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
Something in the Paypal code is taking this out of comment mode, maybe the xhtml-compliant end tags.

Last update code: document.write(document.fileModifiedDate);
is returning an undefined value. Check the command in the document object.

Sponsors.html
Paypal comment.

Artists.html and More.html
For any links that take visitors to another site (Yamaha, Victoria, Seattle Sym, etc.), I recommend adding the attribute: target="_blank" to open a new window, so you don't lose the visitor.

Just picky things. Otherwise, very nice.

SK

[Mark]

OK, here goes...

Thank you. That was very helpful. Everything you mentioned has been resloved with the exception of the PayPal button.

I cannot reproduce your problem with the PayPal button in any of the browsers I am testing (IE 6 - 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome). Just in case it was parsed incorrectly, I separated the end of the comment. It was "---------->" and I made it "------- -->". DId that make a difference in your version of Foxfire?

[bort]

How about a photo on the homepage from last year's conference?

Sounds like fun, wish I could go!

[Mark]

How about a photo on the homepage from last year's conference?

Good idea. I'll see if I can scrounge a couple up.

[skeath]

I cannot reproduce your problem with the PayPal button in any of the browsers I am testing (IE 6 - 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome). Just in case it was parsed incorrectly, I separated the end of the comment. It was "---------->" and I made it "------- -->". DId that make a difference in your version of Foxfire?

No, made it worse. I am using Firefox 3.5.5 (which is current, I think). It's fine in IE.

Here is a screenshot:



You will probably have to remove the comment entirely. It's not necessary.

SK