Hello
Just a little constructive criticism, there are a good number of
individual and Chapter webpages that haven't had any freshening in a couple of years.
If the newest features are a couple of years old, likely everyone who wants to has visited your website and is now bored with the old stuff found there.
Past a couple of years, no one much is interested in pictures of the meets from before '03.
If you have a classified section, advertisements over a year old are pointless. It is frustrating and a bother to everyone who responses.
Someone in the Chapter needs to check to see if the links still work and are valid, a surprising number have changed and are dead ends. A equal number have no webmaster to notify that the connection is dead.
Photographs: if the hood is open, photos of it from the front just make it look as if the car is preparing to devour the photographer. PLEASE ask the owners to shut the hood for a photograph. If the engine compartment is particularly nice, take another photo up close, showing enough fender regions to tell to which car it belongs. And vary the angles of view, all uniformly photographed cars in a set are just boring and are a disservice to the handsome designs presented.
Webpage connection to photos: please set up the page to create thumb-nail leads to the larger photos of member's cars Those pages with endless loading of all the photos full size are frustrating at best, especially when they are on a slow server.
Free Servers: Junk 'em and avoid 'em. You know the ones, slow and loaded with pop-up ads every few seconds. When those pop-ups start, we leave, no one looks at the page. If the chapter can't afford a good server, wait until they can, or use one offer by Hemmings.
Please take this advice in the good spirit intended; to create more interesting and vibrant sources for Studebaker information on the web.
Thanks
Steve
Just a little constructive criticism, there are a good number of
individual and Chapter webpages that haven't had any freshening in a couple of years.
If the newest features are a couple of years old, likely everyone who wants to has visited your website and is now bored with the old stuff found there.
Past a couple of years, no one much is interested in pictures of the meets from before '03.
If you have a classified section, advertisements over a year old are pointless. It is frustrating and a bother to everyone who responses.
Someone in the Chapter needs to check to see if the links still work and are valid, a surprising number have changed and are dead ends. A equal number have no webmaster to notify that the connection is dead.
Photographs: if the hood is open, photos of it from the front just make it look as if the car is preparing to devour the photographer. PLEASE ask the owners to shut the hood for a photograph. If the engine compartment is particularly nice, take another photo up close, showing enough fender regions to tell to which car it belongs. And vary the angles of view, all uniformly photographed cars in a set are just boring and are a disservice to the handsome designs presented.
Webpage connection to photos: please set up the page to create thumb-nail leads to the larger photos of member's cars Those pages with endless loading of all the photos full size are frustrating at best, especially when they are on a slow server.
Free Servers: Junk 'em and avoid 'em. You know the ones, slow and loaded with pop-up ads every few seconds. When those pop-ups start, we leave, no one looks at the page. If the chapter can't afford a good server, wait until they can, or use one offer by Hemmings.
Please take this advice in the good spirit intended; to create more interesting and vibrant sources for Studebaker information on the web.
Thanks
Steve
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