New I.h.s Website

[jav07]

the new i.h.s website has just been launched,still in its early days so there is alot of work to be done Welcome to The International Herpetological Society

[Athravan]

It looks good

Although the breeders meeting link doesn't work for me.

And also, I was a bit offended by the classified rules..

2. No Pet shop Stock Lists, if you can't sell the crap you buy through your own place do not use our facility.

Referring to reptiles stocked in pet shops as "crap" is a bit insulting to me considering I pay more than an individual as a business member to support the IHS. Fair enough if you don't want pet shops to advertise, I have no issue with that, but why is an animal "crap" just because a pet shop is selling it?

[Maureen Collinson]

I am shocked by the wording on that site, referring to livestock as 'crap'.

People moan about the RSPCA no longer caring about the animals in the way that it did when it first started up, well, 'guess what'? it seems that our oncehighly thought of IHS Society has also lost it's way. I was already thinking this because of the lack of planning at meetings when it comes to the animals, but to refer to any animal as 'crap' on their web sitejust proves it fully for me.

Mo.

[cuddles]

never been a fan of the ihs.

businesses pay a lot for there memberships, to be treated like that just puts me off full stop.

the only thing that the ihs have still got going for them is the fact that the majority of breeders meetings are run by them.

[Ssthisto]

If the site isn't complete for the love of pete please put up a holding page. It isn't ready to launch until the content is complete (said from the perspective of someone who does this for a living by the way).

There is nothing that turns off a potential client, customer or member more than "under construction" or "Test content".

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt on the classifieds that those are NOT the actual rules (if they are, that's extremely unprofessional on the part of the IHS and offensive to people who sell their own homebred stock through shops!) ...

Site's nice-looking and pretty easy to navigate - Joomla's a decent platform to work from, even if you're limited to "out of the box" functionality for various modules.

[jav07]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

If the site isn't complete for the love of pete please put up a holding page. It isn't ready to launch until the content is complete (said from the perspective of someone who does this for a living by the way).

There is nothing that turns off a potential client, customer or member more than "under construction" or "Test content".

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt on the classifieds that those are NOT the actual rules (if they are, that's extremely unprofessional on the part of the IHS and offensive to people who sell their own homebred stock through shops!) ...

Site's nice-looking and pretty easy to navigate - Joomla's a decent platform to work from, even if you're limited to "out of the box" functionality for various modules.

so as a person that does this for a living have you never returned to a web site to add or update its content?

[Grakky]

Originally Posted by Athravan

Referring to reptiles stocked in pet shops as "crap" is a bit insulting to me considering I pay more than an individual as a business member to support the IHS. Fair enough if you don't want pet shops to advertise, I have no issue with that, but why is an animal "crap" just because a pet shop is selling it?

that's actually terrible

[jav07]

Originally Posted by Athravan

It looks good

Although the breeders meeting link doesn't work for me.

And also, I was a bit offended by the classified rules..

2. No Pet shop Stock Lists, if you can't sell the crap you buy through your own place do not use our facility.

Referring to reptiles stocked in pet shops as "crap" is a bit insulting to me considering I pay more than an individual as a business member to support the IHS. Fair enough if you don't want pet shops to advertise, I have no issue with that, but why is an animal "crap" just because a pet shop is selling it?

pm sent

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by jav07

so as a person that does this for a living have you never returned to a web site to add or update its content?

I certainly have - we update our sites on a regular basis. But we do not SHOW a page at all (or any links to it) until the page content is fit to be seen by strangers.

For example, on one of the sites I worked heavily on, Gifts 2 Go there are a number of pages and products that customers cannot see or access at all at the moment - because they're not ready to be seen yet. When you're talking about having about thirty seconds to catch someone's attention (if that) you HAVE to have good content on every page.

[bampoisongirl]

i have to agree i went on at first i was impressed til i got bored of finding all the pages i cant access or that are test runs.

also, where the hell do you sign up?

and i agree with the whole calling shop stock 'crap' pretty offensive.

otherwise it looks better.