Touch a Quarter Naan

[tdjohnsn]

This is pretty amusing (sorry Danny)

go to the IAGSDC website and click on the Touch a Quarter Century banner.

http://www.iagsdc.org/

I clicked right on the Officers link without reading and was amazed at how ethnic sounding the entire board of the Cleveland convention is!

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Huh? Officer link?

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

it is "office bearers." I was writing the post it by memory. I was looking for officers on what I assumed without looking was the TAQC site, so I translated in my head.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I see no "Officers" link here.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

it is "office bearers." I was writing the post it by memory. I was looking for officers on what I assumed without looking was the TAQC site, so I translated in my head.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I still don't see it. If I click on the TAQC banner, I get the following links:

Home
Welcome
FAQ
Registration
Schedule
Callers
Hotel
Travel info
Local info
Tours
Newsletters
Store
Google map
Yahoo map
Who's Who
Contact us
Privacy

...none of which seem to fit "office bearers".

Perhaps I'm clicking on the wrong link?

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

That is weird. It takes me to http://www.tagc.org

I'm clicking on the banner on the home page. I wonder if it has been changed but the change has not propogated to all the servers it is cached on yet? (I am totally making that technical explination up, but that is the only reason I can think of that we would be being served differend versions of the website...)

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Aha! You're going to taGc.org, not taQc.org

The Telagu Association of Greater Chicago must be wondering at all of the extra web hits they're getting ...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

When we formed DC Diamond Circulate, we tried to get the domain "dcdc.org". In fact we had already set up a link to that domain before we realized the Dayton County Dance Company had beat us to the domain name. Bastards. :-)

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

I want to go, to simply enjoy the Mother Nature.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! I'm guessing you are not using a Windows machine with IE7 installed?

I think this must be a problem with the banner - I'll contact the organizers. You should end up at http://www.taqc.org - and indeed, on all the Windows/IE7 systems I've tried, that's where you go. However, this is a Flash animation, and I have no idea what embedded code may be in there. It could be that they have multiple links based on platform, and that they've mistyped one of the links. In any case, I'll definitely let them know. Can you let me know (webmaster@iagsdc.org) what browser and OS you are using?

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

You got it. I just sent the e-mail.

and it just dawned on me as I was typing this, that Chip got what I found so funny too, and he is viewing on a Mac as well.

[apparentparadox]

Is the IAGSDC site only tested on Windows/IE7?

I wouldn't let anyone I care about use IE as their primary browser -- too many security problems.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dare design to a single platform! However, I didn't test the Flash file that TAQC supplied on other browsers/platforms.

All the IAGSDC code that I create is tested on Firefox and IE directly; and I use Dreamweaver's compatibility testing to check that it runs on other common platforms. Since I don't have a Mac, if there are major changes to code, Kris Jensen is kind enough to test on her Mac when I release those changes. (Other testers are welcome - just write to webmaster@iagsdc.org to volunteer :-).

And in related news, I ran the stats for the first quarter for the IAGSDC site this week. Well over 90% of all accesses are from Windows machines, and of those almost all are IE7 or IE6, with a small percentage Firefox. Regardless, I will always test for at least Windows and Mac, and with a variety of popular browsers.

I'll have TAQC fix their Flash banner!

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

And bad links happen no matter how much testing you do.

It was really my reaction to not realizing I was in the wrong place that I was posting about.

"Wow, the Cleveland Club sure has a lot of members from India!"

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Now that I know what this is all about, it IS pretty funny! I wonder what they think about standard American names like Mike Jones, John Smith, and Troy Johnson?

It was only in the dark recesses of my mind that I was aware of browser issues and coding could make pages look different on different platforms...Danny's our home guru. Hope TaQC fixes it quickly, so all those MAC users won't have conniptions (at least the ones that aren't on the instant communication tool of LJ!)

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

It was really funny because I didn't even look at the web page. I just skimmed the navigation for the officer and went right there. It took me a couple of seconds to realize I was in the wrong place rather than Cleveland Country dancers having -a lot- of Indian members!