That's a defensive/"can't do anything about it" response to a request for information :-) but understandable ...
I don't mean to be defensive! I'm looking for things that I can change, but not everything can be changed, not without tearing the entire site apart, and we're not going to do that. There's a balancing act involved here between ease of use, ease of maintenance, and availability of people points. (We're trying to avoid the common fannish malady of letting the Perfect be the enemy of the Good Enough.)
I think the Membership/Registration issue is not helped by having the current Quick Links say "Buy a membership" but the top level menu saying "Registration".
That's because we're trying to get the message across to two groups of people whose understanding doesn't completely overlap. I'm having to learn to look at things from the point of view of people who haven't attended many (or any) conventions before, and who find jargon terms like "membership" confusing, while also accommodating long-time members for whom "membership" is the only term they'll recognize. As it happens in the case you cite, you end up in the same place eventually.
The entire membership/registration issue strikes me as another Showdown at Generation Gap.
And I'd never have thought for looking for "Publications" under "Registration" :-)
I don't expect it will stay there. In fact, that page really shouldn't even be visible (there's nothing in it!) so thank you for pointing it out to me so I can take it out of the public inventory.
For Eastercon we went with "Membership"...
What CMS are you using? At least I assume that there's some sort of content management system in use so that you don't have to be a web designer to change things.
WordPress was originally designed as blogging software, but it works surprisingly well as a content management system for many sites. And it's simple enough to use that there are several of us on the committee who are not people with web design experience but who can manage the content of the pages within the existing system.
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Date: 2009-02-19 08:45 am (UTC)The entire membership/registration issue strikes me as another Showdown at Generation Gap.I don't expect it will stay there. In fact, that page really shouldn't even be visible (there's nothing in it!) so thank you for pointing it out to me so I can take it out of the public inventory.What CMS are you using? At least I assume that there's some sort of content management system in use so that you don't have to be a web designer to change things.
WordPress was originally designed as blogging software, but it works surprisingly well as a content management system for many sites. And it's simple enough to use that there are several of us on the committee who are not people with web design experience but who can manage the content of the pages within the existing system.