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The new JREF website

wardenclyffe

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Well, the new and improved JREF website is up and running at http://web.randi.org/

It appears as though the forum has been "improved" right off the page. That happened faster than I was expecting. I thought they were going to keep linking to the forum even when it was no longer the JREF forum.

Ward
 
That's it? This is the great new website they've been working all this time on?

What a huge disappointment.

And, yeah, no link to the forum anymore, after they said they would keep a link for a while. Even more disappointing, but perhaps not surprising.
 
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Revenge. This forum does not have a link to the new website. The link still goes to the old website. It needs fixing.

Edit. It appears that there is a redirection from the old site to the new site. I wonder if it has just gone in?
 
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I did and it went to the old site. Now it goes to the new one. Perhaps it was going to a cached copy before.

Ward
 
They moved from Joomla, a CMS, to using weebly, a drag and drop website builder. Presumably the free version....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly

http://www.weebly.com/

Makes the old Joomla site look sophisticated, and that's saying something since it was stuck in the 1990s.
Why do I still get the impression they haven't a clue about website design at Randi.org
and are saving money by not employing professionals even to design and build the new site ?
 
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Rrose Selavy said:
They moved from Joomla, a CMS, to using weebly, a drag and drop website builder. Presumably the free version....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly

http://www.weebly.com/

Makes the old Joomla site look sophisticated, and that's saying something since it was stuck in the 1990s.
Why do I still get the impression they haven't a clue about website design at Randi.org
and are saving money by not employing professionals even to design and build the new site ?
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Are you sure it's weebly? The source code looks like Wordpress.

Just wondering how you know what it's built in.
 
DarthFishy said:
Are you sure it's weebly? The source code looks like Wordpress.

Just wondering how you know what it's built in.
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If you go to dev tools -> style editor in Firefox, the first item defining the layout of the page refers back to editmysite.com, which is Weebly.

And yeah, I have to agree that it looks absolutely terrible. Far too much wasted space. Seriously, half my screen is just plain white. And while it may be a little unfair to criticise it for a lack of content when they're in the middle of reorganising both the site and the JREF as a whole, but I'm struggling to see why anyone would want to visit the site at all at the moment. The Swift section currently has three posts, two just linking to content elsewhere, and one promising that there will be content any time now, honest. The main site has basically nothing. A couple of podcasts which are mostly inactive. Some links to buy Randi's books. An application form for the MDC (but virtually no information about what it actually is). And that's basically it.

Usually if you're going to do an overhaul like this, you have things in place ready for the grand reopening. Not "Here's a placeholder site, we'll have some content for it along soon. Hopefully".
 
DarthFishy said:
Are you sure it's weebly? The source code looks like Wordpress.

Just wondering how you know what it's built in.
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I use a Chrome extension called Wappalyzer. (also for FF I think)
It's been made to look like WordPress though.
Any of the free templates for WP would have been better than this non event of a design.

Apparently DG Grothe was given the JREF office's last copy of Microsoft FrontPage as a leaving present,
so they had to er... improvise.
 
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Rrose Selavy said:
They moved from Joomla, a CMS, to using weebly, a drag and drop website builder. Presumably the free version....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly

http://www.weebly.com/

Makes the old Joomla site look sophisticated, and that's saying something since it was stuck in the 1990s.
Why do I still get the impression they haven't a clue about website design at Randi.org
and are saving money by not employing professionals even to design and build the new site ?
Click to expand...

Reminds me of what the site looked like before there was a forum. Looks like a big step backwards.
 
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