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Non-Tech : James Cramer -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (156)	1/8/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 766

good post, greg. that is often the case when someone decides to improve a site. a lot of functionality ends up going away. a lot of confusion and frustration takes its place. i first started trading on waterhouse site, and when they revamped, they really made a mess out of things. their errors were prime examples of someone in design who thought it might be nice to add this or that, when in fact, the actual users of the site are rarely consulted. btw, the "And add an icon of Cramer eating crow!" is a great idea. maybe add a wav.file to it, to hear the bones crunching. with a got milk? banner ad right underneath... <gg>

To: Snowshoe who wrote (156)	1/9/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 766

I agree that the new site has been flubbed but not due to performance which seems mixed to me since sometimes it is better and sometimes worse. I expect that they will fix the performance problems. What I don't like is that now it is harder to find the columns. All I ask for is one page where I can see all the columns posted chronologically in the last 24 hours. And it would also be nice to have another page with those posted say between 24 hours and 72 hours ago. This makes it easy to scan through the columns and select the ones I want to read. Drop all the icons and just show author and title (this improves performance). The old site wasn't bad since it was almost what I want until a couple of months ago when someone started moving columns from Today into Archives less than 24 hours after they were posted. So if you only can get to the site once a day you have to search for things. The new site is much worse since there are many more places that I have to search just to make sure that I don't miss something. Say all I want to do is read all of Cramer's columns but I can only get to the site in the evening. The late afternoon postings will be in Regulars. The early afternoon postings will have been moved to Commentary. The morning columns will be archived under one of: Dispatches from the Front, Rear Echelon Revelations, or Tactics and Strategies, or Take Two. And if I want to catch other authors, and I do, then it gets even worse. Regardless of the design of the site it can be screwed up by a bad policy of moving things around. This is what happened to the old site and the new site. Cramer doesn't realize this because he reads the site continuously and sees everything on the front page before they are moved out. But most readers have day jobs. I would be satisfied with either the old site or the new site (assuming they fix the obvious technical problems) if they just observed one rule: Leave every posting on the front page for 24 hours and then move it to a chronology page for the next 48 hours. Even better would be to just strip out all the fancy stuff too. All it does is slow the site. Jim Slager