New Website!

[aggienaut]

   You have probably gathered by now that I'm a beekeeper. Well the other side of our company, and actually the larger money maker by far, is bee control under the company name Bee Busters.* Apparently some people think this makes us all bloodthirsty speciecidal maniacs.**

   Anyway, we are in the final stages now of launched a new website (compare to old one). We basically have the near-final form up and are trying to identify problems, revisions, or further improvements.
   As such, if you could take a look at it and advise me of ANY comments you have on anything from typoes, to better ways to phrase things, things that should be explained further, or stylistic ideas about the formatting of the page. Ie, anything about it.
   Also, you might find the pages on bees (& other hymenopterids) interesting and informative. They were all written by either myself or our office manager Amy.
   Gratuitous fact to get your attention and encourage you to check out the website: I think the swarm on the main page looks like a scrotum



* thats right, not only do I not ever change names, but I'll flout the internet taboo about saying where I work. Thats how I roll. And the blog referenced in that stupid article? Yeah thats me.
** If you wanted to leave comments to the aforementioned article, one can do that, and supportive comments are always appreciated. Feel free to note that it sounds like the article is very slanted against David Marder / Bee Busters and that commenter "Bob" sounds like he needs to take a chill pill. (=

Comments

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're a beekeeper?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

My crazy boss insisted that I include "(nature's perfume)" any time I explained pheromones, so that aside remains on two pages. I think its kind of weird and misportrays their scents as having something to do with attraction which is not the case.

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

I think I get attracted to people by their scent.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thats why I installed a spyware onto your computer that releases a pleasing scent at the right moments. (=

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Validation issues with html?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

(and in re the "22 errors" above)

Holy shit you know you websites. This is all beyond me, but we outsourced to a web developer guy who made the actual site at our direction, I'll pass along your feedback! Thanks!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thanks again! (= I've passed your comments on down the pipeline (=

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Yikes! It really DOES look like a scrotum!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I raised the issue at work the moment I laid eyes on it. They were all like

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you're too funny"

and I was like "I was serious :["

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

I think the site looks very good, easy to navigate, good information and I like the way everything is setup except -- and there always is an except -- the horizontal links on the What's Buggin' You main page seem a little redundant given that the graphics are already linked plus I wouldn't have mind seeing those horizontal links at the end of each article instead of each time having to backup all...the...way...back one page but that's just me.

When I click the Honey link, I only just get the intro page. Am I missing something? Maybe that should also be linked in the gray links box to the left. I know there are tech terms for all this stuff but I am ignorant of them at the moment.

I have no bee icon so I send you my good luck symbol instead.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah that looks like a broken link. I'll pass word along. Thanks! (=

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've passed your feedback on.

But yeah, it looks like there's a broken link for the honey page (I don't recall making one, we may have forgotten that entirely!), and I agree that every page should link to every related page at the bottom. Thanks again!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Great web page. my only disappointment is that the swarm didn't look to me like a scrotum. Keep looking, though, I'm sure you'll find one like that sooner or later.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

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Boy those people commenting on the news article sure are smoking something!It reminds me of all those conspiracy theorists.Tax evasion! Africanized bees as some kind of racial epithet. Drinking parties?! These accusations are cwazy.