http://reflective.bazaar.org/2006/04/10/hello-world/ Reflective Evaluation project Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:55:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://reflective.bazaar.org/2006/04/10/hello-world/#comment-5 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:05:43 +0000 http://reflective.bazaar.org/2006/04/10/hello-world/#comment-5 just a few more moans 1. I registered, got an email confirming user name and password. Tried several times to activate the registration through the link provided but kept gettting told that it was an incorrect user name (jenny). Could not contact bazzar and tell them this because I could not log in etc.... 2. As instructed in e-mail from Ira, clicked on 'tools' area but told error 404, page not available. 3. Front page is repeated if you click on general? If this is deliberate it's really confusing because you expect to see something different 4. Responding to front page is not possible as permission denied message at the bottom of page. Any reason why? just a few more moans
1. I registered, got an email confirming user name and password. Tried several times to activate the registration through the link provided but kept gettting told that it was an incorrect user name (jenny). Could not contact bazzar and tell them this because I could not log in etc….
2. As instructed in e-mail from Ira, clicked on ‘tools’ area but told error 404, page not available.
3. Front page is repeated if you click on general? If this is deliberate it’s really confusing because you expect to see something different
4. Responding to front page is not possible as permission denied message at the bottom of page. Any reason why?

]]> http://reflective.bazaar.org/2006/04/10/hello-world/#comment-4 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:53:20 +0000 http://reflective.bazaar.org/2006/04/10/hello-world/#comment-4 Note that the front page says "the site is deliberately simple..." but the next paragraph goes on to talk about blogging interfaces, static pages, simple administration interface, shared bazaar forum area, Flickr accounts, RSS feeds and delicio.us bookmarks. Now i may be in a technically illiterate minority of one, but all this means nothing to me and really puts me off trying to use the site. In Portugal the group were quite hostile to using this as a form of communication and lots of people asked why we couldn't just use e-mail. Then we asked Graham to stop his presentation half way through because it was getting too technical and we didn't undderstand it. Nevertheless, it went ahead. So be it - but there is a clear message here - if this is a tool for communication it actually puts people off communicating. Please make it simpler and avoid any technical jargon or have button marked technical jargon and put all this stuff in there for those who want to know. If it is necessary for the rest of us to have this information in order to use the site and we don't understand it then it seems a bit pointless including it. Note that the front page says “the site is deliberately simple…” but the next paragraph goes on to talk about blogging interfaces, static pages, simple administration interface, shared bazaar forum area, Flickr accounts, RSS feeds and delicio.us bookmarks. Now i may be in a technically illiterate minority of one, but all this means nothing to me and really puts me off trying to use the site.
In Portugal the group were quite hostile to using this as a form of communication and lots of people asked why we couldn’t just use e-mail. Then we asked Graham to stop his presentation half way through because it was getting too technical and we didn’t undderstand it. Nevertheless, it went ahead. So be it - but there is a clear message here - if this is a tool for communication it actually puts people off communicating.
Please make it simpler and avoid any technical jargon or have button marked technical jargon and put all this stuff in there for those who want to know.
If it is necessary for the rest of us to have this information in order to use the site and we don’t understand it then it seems a bit pointless including it.

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