Website/booking system feedback

**Trenloe** · May 12th, 2013, 17:52

We are using a community built website for this convention (thanks and massive rep go primarily to damned, and a few others, for getting this website up and running). We know it is not perfect, the main issue we strived to fix is displaying dates/times in the local user's timezone - which we couldn't do. We have put off delaying the convention and want to go ahead with the website in it's current form - it should allow most of what we want to do; but we know there will still be some minor issues and areas for improvement.

Please bear with us and list any issues, comments, feedback, recommendations, etc. here in this thread. We'll try and address them if we can...

**JohnD** · May 13th, 2013, 05:30

Should look at using this at all times throughout the year. IMO.

**Trenloe** · May 13th, 2013, 05:35

Originally Posted by JohnD

Should look at using this at all times throughout the year. IMO.

I think you'd better reserve judgement until you've given the system a good go...

There are a number of things we are still trying to find good solutions to that we really need, so it is definitely not a well polished system at the moment.

**damned** · May 13th, 2013, 13:56

You go John!
Get back in your box Trenloe.

**avro5731** · May 18th, 2013, 03:25

nice site Trenloe.... 1 suggestion from an idiot - please make the link and line about the event chart / schedule / spreadsheet easier to fine. maybe a button or bold colored text or something.

Thanks

**Valarian** · May 18th, 2013, 17:44

Seems fine to me, it was fairly easy to set up a game session as a GM. Not had the experience of the bookings from the other side, but approving the places is again pretty simple. With the link to timeanddate.com, the time zone issue is sorted. I must admit, I posted using British Summer Time first rather than UTC/GMT/Zulu time.

**Trenloe** · May 19th, 2013, 16:20

Originally Posted by avro5731

nice site Trenloe.... 1 suggestion from an idiot - please make the link and line about the event chart / schedule / spreadsheet easier to fine. maybe a button or bold colored text or something.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback - we're always looking for ways to improve the site.

**phantomwhale** · May 21st, 2013, 02:56

Originally Posted by avro5731

nice site Trenloe.... 1 suggestion from an idiot - please make the link and line about the event chart / schedule / spreadsheet easier to fine. maybe a button or bold colored text or something.

Thanks

Actually, +1 on that. I knew those links where there, but they are "hidden in plain sight" amongst the text.

Rather than saying "something awesome for you to see click here", perhaps we'd be better saying "something awesome for you to see" - e.g. make the link the thing it goes to, rather than just the word "here" ?

**Trenloe** · May 21st, 2013, 03:03

Thanks for the feedback. I've made some changes to the events page, have a look a let me know what you think.

**bennis1980** · May 27th, 2013, 18:56

I found it a tad confusing when it came to changing my event time. I changed the custom field: TIME AND DATE (which contained the old URL) but the old UTC time came up when I tested it. I realised then that there was another TIME AND DATE field further down.

Also I found that the layout for creating an event was not the same as the walkthrough, which caused some confusion, and probably would stump a meer mortal who was not quite as gifted with a large brain ... ahem... that came out all wrong, I was trying to be humble

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