Reply To: PAS Roster

[Gregory Long]

Our current website needs a few upgrades. In general it is a good site, with a few ‘kludgy’ things.

Such as:

A person cannot edit a post in this message board. If it is the last and latest post you can copy it, delete it, paste it into a new post window, edit it. and repost. More ‘modern’ message boards allow editing your own posts up to several days after it was posted.

A message cannot have more than one photo. This makes writing a technical ‘how to’ very awkward at best. Someone will always add a post in the midst of the long train of posts and individual photos.

The ‘resizing of photos’ is incredibly awkward. I do NOT keep tiny 1200×800 pixel images in my laptop’s photo library. I keep full size images, usually 4000×3000 pixel. To have to copy and resize and save as a ‘small’ version of an image already saved is a pain.

Almost any ‘modern’ website will have it’s own ‘resizing’ program to automatically resize a downloaded image to the size that the website wants.

For those people who live on a computer, doing a ‘simple’ resizing or as one member uses a power-point program to make interesting and multiple photo-posts.. well, I need a YouTube tutorial on ‘how to’ accomplish such feats.

The ‘curmudgeon factor’ mentioned in an earlier post MUST be incorporated in any upgrades to the site.

For those ‘computer-people’ who can find and work with anything on a computer screen, just about anything will be ‘ok’. BUT for those of us who struggle with computers, a website MUST be easy and intuitive to use. Otherwise, like the earlier mentioned Model T site, people will just stop using the site..

And already, too little of our membership visit our site, ever, or come back after being frustrated by the site.

I’ve been on this site since 1996, and it still can frustrate me.

We do need to proceed, but proceed with caution.

Greg Long