Design Rationale

Evaluation

Enhancement proposal

  New Feature

  Others

Visit Nostalgia

Other Recommended Changes

There were a few bugs and inconsistencies on the site which are the first things that should be fixed in a new version. These are as follows:

• When viewing a picture in the gallery, the link marked "Photogallery" is invalid.
• When composing a story, the category combo-box is empty.
• Entries of more than one line in the guest book do not work properly.
• The form for entering an annotation does not have a "Reset Form" button, while all the other entryforms do.

We also have a few recommendations to make the system easier or more interesting to use.

• Reorganize the front page of the system to allow people to see the whole functionality of the system immediately. At the very least, add a menu-bar to the top of the page with quicklinks to each of the seperate sections on the page.
• Add a confirmation when people click the "Reset Form" button, since they might have a lot written, especially in the story composition section.
• Change the photographs occasionally or add new ones to keep people coming back to look.
• Make it more obvious that people can click on the picture thumbnails to get bigger versions. Some users do not immediately realize that.
• Also, some users do not know to click on the "Huckleberry Train" and "Blacksburg Downtown" pictures to go into the galleries. Perhaps set up the "Huckleberry Train" and "Blacksburg Downtown" text themselves as links.