Well, I managed to get back on to the site. Whew. That was too long without my IDO fix.
Having been through a site relaunch myself, I have a lot of appreciation for all the various bugs/issues to work through. So I’ll be patient. I’m sure your team is busy tracking the various bugs and preparing a list of fixes etc.
My initial observations (which others may have already covered):
– Still struggling with how the site views on my iPhone. Not sure if it’s mobile optimized (or mobile adaptive) or not, but could just be early bug issues. It is viewable.
– Any chance you can use one of your main home page tiles (boxes) to display the forum threads? To me that was one very nice feature of the old site – allowed me to quickly see the latest threads being posted etc. each time I went to the site from my phone or desktop. Would be pretty easy to do I think.
– Don’t bother using IE8. I finally had to switch to Firefox on desktop.
– Photos/pictures etc. look great. And I like how it appears you’ll be promoting IDO episodes etc. Very cool.
– Overall the site is a bit busy for my eyes, but could be cuz it’s new or cuz you’re busy transitioning stuff.
– Most importantly…so with all this high water, what’s my best bet for trying to catch some eyes on the Mississippi or southern MN? Argh.
Keep up the great work, James.
