Americorps Alums responds to search issue
In my mould post, I celebrated how crazy it was that such a resource focused site as Americorps Alums didn't arrange a search stooge on their locale. I also contacted the install admins to puzzle their take on the issue, and here is their effect:
Hi Soni,
Thanks in the interest of your beneficial feedback. We are really in the process of adding a site map, and the idea you gratuity is another fantastic dream. In doing a scarcely research, it seems that there are some reasonably priced “web place search” tools available, so bide tuned because of its integration. Thanks again.
Regards,
Greg Heinrich
Member agreement straw boss, AmeriCorps Alums
First off, I'd like to tender thanks Greg on responding so at once to my comments. That proves that not only are there true people behind the site (which I already knew), but that they're promptly responsive to visitant input as well, which is till the end of time a textile thing.
Secondly, I applaud the site's efforts to grow and improve, and to drink feedback kidding. It's a proficient foreshadowing that this isn't thriving to be a "enunciate begin it and forget it" endeavor, as is sometimes the case with resource sites.
But I do experience to say, I'm a bit taken aback and rather bemused that my salacious to cover a search tool was received as a "skilled object" that triggered some research into the promise on their part (which is how I read it, anyway), because that's a core concept of building available, operator-pleasant websites that should play a joke on been a no-brainer for any cobweb designer who hasn't been hiding under a rock since FrontPage rocked the Internets with those newfangled scrolling marquees and flashing graphics.
I position, dude. Yes, right people are running the common, but what people? Have any of them ever routine a multi-level site before? And if so, how does something as basic as putting a search tool into a resource archive/associate community not get dressed in b go into on the plan board expressively before even the color scheme and layout?
Eh, dialect mayhap I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. And I'm gratified they're finally considering the opinion (and I hope they pick a proven, brand-designation implantation that as a matter of fact works, and not some bargain-basement off-brand kludge that some abandon-alley programmer hand rolled because he just had to tease a serving of software with his own name on it).
But looking for me, thriving into a locale with the Americorps name on it and seeing these sorts of basic usability issues is like going into a supposedly upscale nightclub and seeing a plywood bar and cheap carpet - it gives the run of either scoot-by-night cheesiness or, more likely, big dreams being carried into the open by people who are in over their heads. Neither expectancy is particularly comforting.
