it's functional. It doesn't quite meet their needs. And yes, the text could be better.
On 9/1/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure what's going on with this, but the first link you sent over > worked just fine for me. :-D > > I was pleasantly surprised by the site, it really is quite nice as it is. > If > I had things my way I might pull the front end apart a little bit and > rebuild it using CSS and make everything valid, also look at getting some > accessibility approval by the W3C WAI or something along those lines. > > I also notice the whole thing is quite text intensive, especially that > first > page, it's a real slap in the face and might well detour people from > reading > further, the front page should really be focused around gaining the users > initial interest, then allow them to explore in their own time to fine > answers to their questions. > > I also don't know how their SEO works, it might be worth spending a bit of > time putting consideration in to that, with these kind of non profit > making > organisations, raising their profile in the public eye is always of great > value to them. > > It might also be worth looking at what other charities and organisations > such as this are doing to promote themselves on the web, sort of like an > eBumperSticker scheme where people can add a footer to their site simply > to > help promote the organisation, or perhaps one of those 'make poverty > history' style javascript bands which run in the top corner of the page? > Like this... http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/getinvolved/banners.shtml > ..... just a thought. > > My few cents Dana, not sure if those were the kinds of suggestions you > were > after, but hey! Worth a shot. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 September 2007 16:49 > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: suggestions for site > > what the hell. No kidding. Take two: > > http://208.112.112.99/ > > > On 9/1/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would change the home page. I wasn't able to understand anything > > they're about by this: > > > > 500 > > > > ROOT CAUSE: > > com.seefusion.SeeFusionKillError: SeeFusion terminated request: Page > > Time at 50485ms >= limit of 50000ms (rule "latentpages") > > at com.seefusion.ud.e(ud.java:338) > > at com.seefusion.uc.a(uc.java:431) > > at com.seefusion.uc.c(uc.java:402) > > at com.seefusion.uc.a(uc.java:208) > > at com.seefusion.ze.a(ze.java:38) > > at com.seefusion.ge.a(ge.java:41) > > at com.seefusion.vd.a(vd.java:295) > > at com.seefusion.vd.run(vd.java:281) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) > > > > > > javax.servlet.ServletException: ROOT CAUSE: > > com.seefusion.SeeFusionKillError: SeeFusion terminated request: Page > > Time at 50485ms >= limit of 50000ms (rule "latentpages") > > at com.seefusion.ud.e(ud.java:338) > > at com.seefusion.uc.a(uc.java:431) > > at com.seefusion.uc.c(uc.java:402) > > at com.seefusion.uc.a(uc.java:208) > > at com.seefusion.ze.a(ze.java:38) > > at com.seefusion.ge.a(ge.java:41) > > at com.seefusion.vd.a(vd.java:295) > > at com.seefusion.vd.run(vd.java:281) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) > > > > at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter( > > MonitoringServletFilter.java:70) > > at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter( > > BootstrapFilter.java:46) > > at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) > > at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) > > at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) > > at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java > > :42) > > at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke( > > JRunRequestDispatcher.java:284) > > at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch( > > ServletEngineService.java:543) > > at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable( > > JRunProxyService.java:203) > > at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable( > > ThreadPool.java:320) > > at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable( > > ThreadPool.java:428) > > at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable( > > ThreadPool.java:266) > > at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) > > > > > > On 9/1/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > doh! It was late ;) > > > > > > http://www.raisethenation.org/ > > > > > > On 9/1/07, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been asked to help fix a site for a small local non-profit. I > > am > > > > > compiling a list of things it needs pro bono and would appreciate > > any > > > > > thoughts thta you guys might have, > > > > > > > > You forgot the link, Dana ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
