USFA Homepage Design

[pillow]

Does anyone other than me mind that the USFA homepage contains a non-functional link to last fall's Senior World Championship?

How about the pictures of our elite fencers? They are all nice looking, accomplished kids, but don't they ever rotate the photos to get some variety?

[dsapery]

I just have 3 words... "don't blame me."

[alpine]

Does anyone other than me mind that the USFA homepage contains a non-functional link to last fall's Senior World Championship?

How about the pictures of our elite fencers? They are all nice looking, accomplished kids, but don't they ever rotate the photos to get some variety?

Someone sold them the "dancing bananas" package. It's a standard case of the buyer being mesmerized by a cool looking but not very functional interface and falling for it hook, line & sinker.

[Purple Fencer]

One major complaint I have is finding a club for a noob is VERY difficult.

First off, the "find a club" link is buried in a pull down menu when it SHOULD be in a visible place on the front page.

And 2nd....anyone else miss the map where you could click in your area of residence if you didn't know your division name? MUCH more convenient for a noob than trying to figure out how close a club's city is to your location, especially if you're traveling or moving to a new area.

But that map and an easily found "find a club" button made sense...of COURSE they were taken off the site...

[oiuyt]

There are a number of improvements that could be made within the existing framework.

That said, the existing framework also poses some limitations. The framework is established by the USOC, which pays US Fencing to use it.

-B

[EldRick]

However, the way the organization has used what they've got is strictly an amateur job, and USFA apparently puts little effort into improving, or even maintaining, the site.

[darius]

Oh, but we've come so far ... five years ago, you were lucky to even see anything other than a server error when hitting the site. Guess what the most popular/divisive topic of conversation on f.net was?

(...just kidding. It was point in line.)

darius

[hello?]

Oh, but we've come so far ... five years ago, you were lucky to even see anything other than a server error when hitting the site. Guess what the most popular/divisive topic of conversation on f.net was?

darius

At least EVERYONE agreed then! "USFA down?" "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Still down."

[dsapery]

Oh, but we've come so far ... five years ago, you were lucky to even see anything other than a server error when hitting the site. Guess what the most popular/divisive topic of conversation on f.net was?

At least EVERYONE agreed then! "USFA down?" "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Still down."

Please tell me that you're talking about Dan's site, not mine.

[darius]

I think so? The really old site was Netscape-chic, but it did the job, if I recall correctly. And then when the redesign came out, that's when nobody could access it.

I'm assuming it was a bad webhost or something ... I do remember sitting in the Frontier Cybercenter, thinking, "If I can't see it from the area's internet backbone, it just ain't happening..."

darius

[Inquartata]

Oh, but we've come so far ... five years ago, you were lucky to even see anything other than a server error when hitting the site. Guess what the most popular/divisive topic of conversation on f.net was?

(...just kidding. It was point in line.)

darius

Bah. When I was a young fencer, our web page was petroglyphs on a rock. The lions who lived in the vicinity kept it from being updated very often.

[Goldgar]

Bah. When I was a young fencer, our web page was petroglyphs on a rock. The lions who lived in the vicinity kept it from being updated very often.

And then we were all talking about point in lion.

[Purple Fencer]

And then we were all talking about point in lion.

Where's my black card???

[forethought]

And then we were all talking about point in lion.

Gold.

[Inquartata]

I dunno, I'm not feline it.

[VorpalCat]

I dunno, I'm not feline it.

Well, you cat always have it your way.

[Capt. Slo-mo]

Well, purrfect. Now this thread will be littered with kitty references...

[hello?]

Where's my black card???

Sourpuss.

[alpine]

Well, purrfect. Now this thread will be littered with kitty references...

Or kitty litter. That's the mane problem.

[Inquartata]

And another thread yields to puns. My heart swells with pride.