Making Hay While The Sun Shines

[The Adelaide Connection]

Re: Making Hay While The Sun Shines

You mean something like this - http://www.k9club.com.au/

Actually, no I don't. Have you visited this site? I think you should probably go check it out and think back to a time when you were a kid. This site is, in my opinion, almost counter-productive. That is a nice way to say that it is balls.

I mean something like this:

http://www.planetteal.com.au/

This site is still far from perfect but it is about 7 million times better than the K9 site. It should be abundantly clear why the Port site is infinitely more attractive to kids than the K9 site and if the developers can't see it (sorry to be critical) but they have no business designing a site for kids.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Making Hay While The Sun Shines

This site is still far from perfect but it is about 7 million times better than the K9 site. It should be abundantly clear why the Port site is infinitely more attractive to kids than the K9 site and if the developers can't see it (sorry to be critical) but they have no business designing a site for kids.

Sorry, I'm not a developer, but why is it so much better.

[The Adelaide Connection]

Re: Making Hay While The Sun Shines

I am not a developer either but working with kids I know that 99% of the target age group wouldn't make it past the homepage and would certainly never bother coming back. You have buckleys of attracting new kids (as in non-WB supporters).

The K9 site actually looks like it has been designed for parents to tell them about the great things the K9 club do (and it does sound excellent). The homepage is saturated in print, the site is a tangle of small menus, and while the content is well intentioned it is delivered like a lecture.

Kids don't want to be greeted with a page full of writing. Kids want visual, interactive and fun. There is still a place for the profiles and accounts of k9 news but these can also be delivered via media such as video. The healthy lifestyle conent is important but needs to be presented in a dynamic, activity based way.

The Power site is still a work in progress but they have the basics. The menus and links are large, visual buttons, print is kept to a minimum (with larger fonts), and the site is full of games and activities. A non-power supporting kid could go on and have fun and will want to go back even just for the games. It is this sort of positive experience that you have to aim for that will lead to increased exposure, not a webpage that almost looks like a newspaper.

[The Adelaide Connection]

Re: Making Hay While The Sun Shines

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but I have just stumbled across this:

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/myfreeticket

Basically the club are giving away free double passes to the round 1 game v Freo. Whilst I know (hope) most on here are members and have tickets anyway, maybe we could all get on the promo train and try to drag as many neutrals/disgruntled Essendon fans along as possible. Just need a ticketmaster account, so anyone could potentially get as many tickets as they want. Maybe we could run a comp to see who gets the most "extras" along to the game?