BiFest on teh web.

[baratron]

The Brighton BiFest website is live! Enjoy! I am particularly proud of the shiny Google map, which took a fair bit of wrangling to come into existence. While I did all of the rest of the site myself, Richard is a hero, and has spent several hours fiddling with Javascript to try to create a version of the map page that'll work on PDAs and Windows Mobile devices - you know, for those disorganised geeks who find themselves at Brighton station without a print out of where they're supposed to be going...

I've also updated the MySpace page. My gods, that interface sucks. Apart from being freakishly slow and requiring Javascript for things that really shouldn't, it's just so unbearably hard to navigate. It's particularly daft that you have to pretend that an event or a group is a person because they don't have a "community group" option when you set up your profile, like they do with bands. If you are perverse enough to use MySpace, please go & add Brighton BiFest to your friends, so I don't feel that I've entirely wasted my time.

Comments

[nitoda]

Um, it's very *pretty* with all the colours, but is there an easy obvious way to make the text more readable please? (I know, I suck at reading pretty webpages, I do tend to prefer my text in black on white which is visually *very* boring!)

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

Should I or someone make a Facebook event for it too?

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

Also re the MySpace page - it says in the main right hand panel that it's on Feb 10th not Feb 9th.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I don't know what browser you're using. If Opera, then you could go to View --> Zoom & increase the size from 100% to make the text bigger, or to View --> Style & change the style from Author Mode to User Mode. You'd set up your preferred style (black on white) in Tools --> Preferences --> Advanced & click on Style options.

If Firefox, then go to View --> Text Size to increase the size of the font, and View --> Page Style & click No Style to make all the text black on white.

I shall, at this juncture, point out that the website has been tested with two text-only browsers (Lynx & w3m) and with a text-to-speech program :)

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Yes please re. Facebook - I don't use it, so it'd be useful to have it promoted there.

I thought I'd caught all the instances of "10th", but missed that one - thanks, fixed :)

[nitoda]

Thanks - I confess I clicked through from work on evil IE - but the info on accessing pages with No Style is new to me and will no doubt prove very useful! I wonder if it works on Livejournal? ;-) Sometimes when I click through I get taken to people's journals in their style and it makes it impossible to read so it would be really useful. I know I'm a bit old but I don't understand why some people like to put text on top of pictures! ;-)

I'm not at all suprised that you've tested it with text-only browsers - and I didn't mean to be critical, so much as to seek information, which you have very kindly provided! ::hugs?::

[baratron.livejournal.com]

It's easy enough to fix with livejournal anyway - go to Manage --> Viewing Options, then go to the option called Comment pages: View comment pages in your own journal style. That will force most pages you load to be in your preferred style. Unless you go directly to someone's journal front page - I'm not sure if there's any way to automatically view all pages in your own style.

Also, if you manually type &style=mine in any URL - for example, this current URL is http://baratron.livejournal.com/530168.html?replyto=2158328. If you go to the address bar and add at the end http://baratron.livejournal.com/530168.html?replyto=2158328&style=mine, it will force the page to your style. I can't do that myself because it's my journal, so it's already in my preferred style & colourscheme :)

I'm not annoyed with you or anything like that. I just find it amusing that these days people say "Argh! A website that's white on black! My eyes!" when I grew up using computers pre-internet that were white on black. Even now, on many computers, I find black on white too painfully bright to read, which is why my own journal style has black on pastel backgrounds. The bright white of a backlit computer screen is much brighter than the dull white of a book. Hehe. How things change!

[nitoda]

I think it was the combination of pink and blue and white on black and the fact that I had IE set to below normal text size - I hunted around and found the way to change the text size which made it a LOT easier to cope with! It was a useful reminder to myself that I have those choices in the end. :-)