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Why, oh, why, oh, why are resort websites so very crap?

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@Gämsbock, Wolffenschiessen?

Try the Hotel-Restaurant Alpina (www.alpina.s5.com), the Ochsen (www.restaurant-hotel-ochsen.ch).

There's more in Oberrickenbach (www.restaurant-bannalpsee.ch) or Grafenort (www.gastehaus-grafenort.com).

Very Happy
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I think it's a compound problem. Firstly it's about power. Knowledge is power and it makes Tourist-Offices feel important to control the knowledge. Secondly it's paranoia, never forget the internet is an evil anglophone invention. They know they have to have a website, but are suspicious of making it useful. Thirdly it's about protectionism. How would all the bonne-femmes justify their cosy jobs at the office of disinformation were it not for the steady stream of calls, visitors, and most importantly faxes, all pathetically begging for the lift opening times? Finally, they can't resist shiny things. Bells, whistles, flash, music, pop-up, drop-down, scrolling, fading - it's all merveilleux!

Nevertheless, wouldn't it be awful if the continent was no different to England... snowHead
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
stevomcd wrote:


Les Arcs at one point a couple of years back had a summer website divided into 4 or 5 sections which all had titles like "breath", "relax", "inspire", "excite". OK, but where are the fecking lift opening times?


Yeah lots of websites love that bollux and the whole " my life is perfect becos I'm in Xxxx" photomontages . I generally want to know opening/closing dates, pass prices and have a piste map I can scroll without having to download a pdf
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@shep, a terribly reasonable post for 00:48 am snowHead
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Gämsbock wrote:
Supposedly you can figure out who has available accommodation on them.

Not on any Italian ones that I have tried.
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@shep, The internet is of course an American invention (ARPNET), but we had similar ones in the UK (JANET IIRC) about the same time. However, the worldwide web is a French/Swiss invention arising from CERN in geneva.
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@under a new name, I completely agree. Websites have either been "improved" or are so ancient that they are stuck in the 1990s (the worst of the latter are the Monterosa website which along with Cervinia are so ancient and clunky you struggle to find anything out).
You should be able to go to a home page and find links directly to:
Piste map.
Open lifts-with map and open pistes.
Webcams.
Accommodation.
Resort map.
Ski schools.

All should be tablet friendly. Please please no random little lines in the top right or left to pull down a menu. Just stick the sodding menu on the home page.
Nuff said.
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
Actually, despite my comment on p1, I've just checked my apartment bookings on the Laax website and it seems to be better than most:

http://www.laax.com/en/


Last edited by After all it is free Go on u know u want to! on Thu 10-12-15 12:16; edited 1 time in total
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blimmin auto playing plinky-plink music really cheeses me off. dunno why French (PdS in particular) webshites insist on such nonsense that disappeared from English language sites about the time that Geocities finally carked it.

sadly now, you're not supposed to use the internet (or things like email applications). you're supposed to "experience it".
Yahoo are #1 culprits there.
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Here is a bad one:

http://www.terrederunning.com/

on my mobile, Nada.

On firefox on Linux - a black screen. Possibly because flash deprecated on Linux.
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On firefox on Linux

working ok here
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
that's bad - it does function, for some level of "function", in Linux Chrome/Chromium.
flashturbation and a half
right... now time to go cleanup up flash cookies, which usually seem to bypass any rules about cookie deletion...
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pam w wrote:
Not a happy chappie today, @under a new name? Little Angel Some resort websites are OK. No problem finding the names of pistes, and relevant information about them, in the Espace Diamant.


I had not heard of this area so had a look. Well I just had a look at the http://www.espacediamant.com/en/espace-diamant-120.html and if this is what you mean I am not convinced. Took me a long time to find a piste map and then using it was hopeless. Why do they pin a huge top bar graphic so that I can only see 2/3rds of a useful screen?
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
johnE wrote:
@shep, The internet is of course an American invention (ARPNET), but we had similar ones in the UK (JANET IIRC) about the same time. However, the worldwide web is a French/Swiss invention arising from CERN in geneva.


last time I checked the WWW was invented by someone called TimBL....not merkin at all!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
ARPANET was the first internet. What TimBL did was link together various technologies like TCP, Hypertext and the internet, develop a web browser and out popped the World Wide Web. He did this while working for CERN which hosted the first website. So both right Smile
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They don't recognize the huge power of web design, which makes the site more user-friendly and less scammy!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Too many websites regardless of product/service have succumbed to worthless, vacous, ignorant nouveau hipster trendoid design which, like aformentioned hipsters is wholly devoid of any subtance whatsoever. My Rice Krispies tell me more than most websites.......................
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
arcsinice wrote:
Too many websites regardless of product/service have succumbed to worthless, vacous, ignorant nouveau hipster trendoid design which, like aformentioned hipsters is wholly devoid of any subtance whatsoever. My Rice Krispies tell me more than most websites.......................


Yep - just because you can does not mean you should
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Ed Johnson wrote:
They don't recognize the huge power of web design, which makes the site more user-friendly and less scammy!
Personally I try to avoid web design - hopefully the scammy look keeps the less friendly users away Wink
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snowornever wrote:
johnE wrote:
@shep, The internet is of course an American invention (ARPNET), but we had similar ones in the UK (JANET IIRC) about the same time. However, the worldwide web is a French/Swiss invention arising from CERN in geneva.


last time I checked the WWW was invented by someone called TimBL....not merkin at all!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
The internet and the WWW are not the same thing.
The WWW is just the vehicle that most people are most familiar with for travelling the 'road network' that is the Internet.
Other vehicles exist...
For example Email is a quite separate vehicle from the WWW - boundaries are blurred though by the fact that many people now use a WWW interface to access their email.
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gopher ftw
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@admin, Thank God you don't have music on here!
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