Advice page for punters about venues

[musicologydisco]

This page is available to anyone who wants to copy it. Some members on another forum are now using it to help try and educate customers. It all helps to raise awareness of issues re Sound limiters, smoke detectors and other stuff.
Help yourself if you want to use all or any of it.
http://www.musicologydisco.com/advice.html
Cheers

[Shakermaker Promotions]

An informative page and I have one like that myself so thanks........BUT (there's always a but!)...

I don't think it's a good idea to say (or maybe encourage people to pressure venues) that certain sections of a venue can have their smoke alarms / detectors turned off. Yes, we want the lighting to look good and give that 'TV' effect with the beams of light etc but I just saw that line in your page and instantly thought "No!". I always inform my customers and venues about the smoke and haze and if I get told I can't use it, I won't. I wouldn't say anymore than that.

[musicologydisco]

Depending on the system installed, it can be possible to do this safely and legally so I have been reliably informed. Ultimately it will be up to the venue so I can see no harm in them being asked the question.

[Vectis]

The whole page reads a bit "yah, boo, sucks!" to me.

I understand what you're trying to achieve, but

a) no-one's going to read it (except, if you're lucky, a spider)
b) it needs rewriting to lose the :ner: tone
c) it renders horribly in Safari - lines wrap too soon and the bottom couple of inches of the screen overlap the text. Not checked any other pages.

[musicologydisco]

Never heard of Safari I'm afraid and not aware of any viewing probs with my site but will double check.
You're welcome to change the page in any way you wish

[Vectis]

Never heard of Safari I'm afraid

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2

Comes with every Apple product and even a few Windoze users have been tempted.



Page not for you then. That's fine!

Nope. But then I'm not your average Joe Public.

[musicologydisco]

Ah right. Views ok in IE, Chrome and Firefox so wouldn't have a clue what to do to make it work with Safari but I reckon that's something for them to address.

[Vectis]

Ah right. Views ok in IE, Chrome and Firefox so wouldn't have a clue what to do to make it work with Safari but I reckon that's something for them to address.

Errrr.... sorry but I think the ball is most definitely in your court :o

[musicologydisco]

All looks a bit geeky to me I'm afraid.

[Vectis]

All looks a bit geeky to me I'm afraid.

You have a webpage that's jam packed with coding and structure errors and yet it's the browser's fault that it doesn't render properly?

Hmmm....

[JTRS]

It renders fine in IE, which I would guess is a very high proportion of the browsers used to visit the site.

JTRS

[DazzyD]

This is the latest browser market share stats if anyone is interest:

Month Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari Opera Other
February, 2010 61.58% 24.23% 5.61% 4.45% 2.35% 1.77%
March, 2010 60.65% 24.52% 6.13% 4.65% 2.37% 1.67%
April, 2010 59.95% 24.59% 6.73% 4.72% 2.30% 1.71%
May, 2010 59.75% 24.32% 7.04% 4.77% 2.43% 1.69%
June, 2010 60.32% 23.81% 7.24% 4.85% 2.27% 1.51%
July, 2010 60.74% 22.91% 7.16% 5.09% 2.45% 1.66%
August, 2010 60.48% 22.90% 7.50% 5.15% 2.36% 1.61%
September, 2010 59.62% 22.97% 7.99% 5.27% 2.40% 1.75%
October, 2010 59.18% 22.83% 8.50% 5.36% 2.29% 1.85%
November, 2010 58.44% 22.76% 9.26% 5.55% 2.20% 1.79%
December, 2010 57.08% 22.81% 9.98% 5.89% 2.23% 2.01%



Darn! Can't get the columns to align. Looks alright on the edit post screen as well! :(

[musicologydisco]

Well if 95%+ can see it ok I'm sure as hell not gonna go tinkering about with it and risk buggering it all up! I'm not an expert and rely on the nifty bit of software to build it which is great for idiots like me!

[musicologydisco]

You have a webpage that's jam packed with coding and structure errors and yet it's the browser's fault that it doesn't render properly?

Hmmm....

It works with all the other browsers so yes.

[Vectis]

Well if 95%+ can see it ok I'm sure as hell not gonna go tinkering about with it and risk buggering it all up! I'm not an expert and rely on the nifty bit of software to build it which is great for idiots like me!

95% of desktop users perhaps.

95% of iphone, itouch and ipad users will be on Safari. They'll also be in the main a significant part of the target demographic for wedding discos.

Everything matters especially at the top of the market where a garbled website could cost you sales. If you're slapdash about your main marketing tool, then what's to say the rest of your service isn't the same?

It would put me right off dealing with you.

[musicologydisco]

My diary begs to differ! Thanks for your advice tho'

[Vectis]

My diary begs to differ! Thanks for your advice tho'

No worries. If you ever fancy raising your game there's plenty more where that came from.

[JTRS]

This is the latest browser market share stats if anyone is interest:



Darn! Can't get the columns to align. Looks alright on the edit post screen as well! :(

I'm waiting for someone to say BROWSER PROBLEM

:D :D :D

JTRS

[simonp]

No worries. If you ever fancy raising your game there's plenty more where that came from.

To be fair Martin, he is marketing himself as "Cheap Price Discos in Norwich & Norfolk", typically going out for around £120/£160 - so that seems to be working for him, so can't imagine him wanting to raise his game significantly.

[Jiggles]

Ah right. Views ok in IE, Chrome and Firefox so wouldn't have a clue what to do to make it work with Safari but I reckon that's something for them to address.

Be to differ there. It the same as what Martin described. Chrome 8, Mac 10.6.6.

[Vectis]

To be fair Martin, he is marketing himself as "Cheap Price Discos in Norwich & Norfolk", typically going out for around £120/£160 - so that seems to be working for him, so can't imagine him wanting to raise his game significantly.

Hence my rather tongue in cheek comment ;)


Be to differ there. It the same as what Martin described. Chrome 8, Mac 10.6.6.

Ooer. Hardly surprising.

[musicologydisco]

So a problem with Apple's kit it seems. How do I fix it then? In English please!