Participant list order is not reflected in the order of the answers in the survey feedback section.
Larry Roberts - Filipino American National Historical Society
Randy Jaillet - Filipino American National Historical Society
Barbara Vallauri - Saturday Afternoon Club
Jerilynn Johnson - Legal Aid of Sonoma County
Jessica Bobier - Saturday Afternoon Club
Antonio Ventura - Filipino American National Historical Society
Al Shanto - Legal Aid of Sonoma County
Jennifer James - Global Leadership
The site is geared toward both amateur and professional musicians as well as all lovers of Folk Music. The goal is to educate and connect the website's visitors with each other and events in the community.
A wide variety of systems and connection speeds were used in testing our site. We had excellent results and no reponses that found unexpected problems
| Computer | Monitor size | Monitor colors | OS | Browser | Internet |
| PC | 24 inch 1920x1200 | 32m | Vista Ultimate x64 | MSIE v7 | DSL |
| PC | 17 inch (1024 x 768px) | Highest - 32 bit | Windows XP | Internet Explorer 7 | Cable Modem |
| Laptop | 1280 x 800 | 32-bit | Windows XP | Google Chrome 1, Firefox 2 | Corporate Broadband |
| PC | 21 inch | 24-bit | Win Vista | Firefox 3.0.1 | satellite 512k |
| PC | 17 inch | 32-bit | Vista Ultimate | Firefox 3.0.1 | DSL |
| PC | 17 inch | millions | Windows XP | IE7 | Cable - Comcast |
| PC | 17 inch | millions | Windows XP Home | IE7 | Dialup |
| Mac Laptop | 15 inch | millions | Mac OSX | Firefox (recent version) | DSL |
Respondents found navigation easy. The site succeeded in its goal to provide easy access to information regarding its mission and about the local Folk music scene. The viewability of the calendar came up and was addressed immediately by our designer. This improvement led to many viewability improvements across the entire site.
Hot Frittatas, at Healdsburg Plaza, Celebrate Healdsburg, Noon to 1 p.m. - Didn't think to check the calendar, I was looking for "Events", but I eventually found it
Kate Wolf Memorial Festival at Black Oak Ranch, 5 miles north of Layton Ville, California
Hot Frittatas on May 9. I went directly to the calendar page and found it easily. However, the numbering of the days was a little confusing for a moment. I didn't know they were days at first, and because they are vertical-aligned center in their cells, it's difficult to tell which event they match up with.
Kate Wolf Memorial Festival Black Oak Ranch, 5 mi north of Layton Ville, California
Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble april 2009
Hot Frittatas, May 9th
Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival
"an all volunteer organization" - easy to find on the "About" page
The Sonoma County Folk Society is an all volunteer organization that puts on the Sonoma County Bluegrass and Folk Festival in March. They also produce local concerts for musical groups passing through the area and provides informaion on the local folk music scene.
An all volunteer organization. I found this easily via the "About" page.
An all volunteer organization.
A non-profit volunteer organization which provides acces to the Sonoma county Folk Music scene.
Community > Jams⁄Dances - this one took a few tries, I looked a couple of other places first
Community > Jams & Dances. I didn't find this immediately but looked to "Contact Us" first.
The Community section
Community > Jams and Dances
Community > Jams & Dances
Community > Jams & Dances
Jams & Dances page
"Look & Listen" > Music, this one was easy
Look & Listen > Music. I found this easily. The flash players are great by the way.
Look and Listen section
Look & Listen > Music
Look & Listen > Music
Look & Listen > Music
The Music page, either under the Look & Listen link or via the Music link at the bottom of the page.
Response to the colors and design were very complimentary. People appreciated the subdued color scheme and simple, intuitive navigation. There were some comments about the small font and viewability of some sections. These were addressed as best as possible while staying within the confines of the requirements and wishes of the client.
Friendly, calm, inviting
Casual, folksy, laid back, comfortable.
The overall tone and feel of the site is very calming with the use of the sage green color. It is very subtle and not in your face like some sites.
Soft structure, presents the content very nicely.
Warm
Professional, fun, very inviting
Very accessible. I like the green color theme. Navigation is simple and useful. Easy to find out a lot of information.
A volunteer organization that supports Bluegrass and Folk festivals and music in Sonoma County, mainly to play music, listen to music, etc.
It gives lots of information about the group, ways to listen to their music, ways to see them perform, or ways to join yourself.
A non-profit organization focused on folk music.
The site is about providing people with information on the local folk music scene.
About the organization, its members and their music.
Sonoma music volunteer bluegrass and folk festival music
Providing access to Sonoma County Folk Music scene
Getting people involved in the folk society, where to go to find music.
Nice colors, home page is not too long and gives a short overview of the site.
Peaceful colors and liked the collage at the top of the page.
Nice. I like the graduated look of the nav buttons and the shade of green is nice. I love the SoCoFoSo emblem in the bottom left.
I thought the site was laid out very nicely with the simple nav bar on the left side and on the bottom as well. I thought the use of the colors meshed nicely with the logo on the top and the montage of singers right beneath it.
Very well designed and interesting
Simple and frienly
Very friendly and inviting
Nice colors, soft & welcoming.
Calendar, to see what events are coming up.
I had read your email about the music players, so I went to check them out. . . They seem to work fine on my computer!
"About" just to learn more about what I'm testing.
I first clicked on the About Us section
Community > Jams and Dances
About
Calendar
About
Not really, the flyout menus do not work, and I could not get the mouse to go over the submenu section.
Yes, no problems
Yes, very easy. Clean and simple, and the navigation makes sense. I like that it's all in one place rather than having confusing links and colors all over the place like some sites.
The site was very easy to navigate since the nav bar was pretty self-explanatory in telling where to go and what I'd find there.
Yes
Yes
Yes, navigation is simple and consistent on every page
Very easy. The link labels are self-explanatory. Not too many layers to wade through.
Liked the videos, music, since I like folk music.
Yes, if you are interested in folk music
Somewhat. The color scheme and layout is appealing, but there isn't much on the pages to break up the monotony of the text.
The pages where very interesting, especially reading up on the local events to see if there was anything there that might interest me. I am not too familiar with the folk scene so it was interesting in reading up on what this organization is about.
Yes, because this is an interesting organization of musicians, and the site talks about them, provides samples of their music and links to their individual websites.
If you are into folk music could be interesting
Yes, I think the images along the top of the page were a very good choice and make the pages interesting
Very. Lots of information. Plus I like bluegrass music and I didn't know the Folk Society existed. . .
The colors and layout are very nice.
The left and right sidebar columns. I like the layout and design of them. However. . .
I like the use of colors which were both simplistic and eye-appealing. I also like the use of the same header for each of the pages. It made the site very consistent.
The design
The images along the top
Nothing that you haven't already addressed in your e-mail. I really like the site
The colors.
The Times Roman (Serif) font is very hard to read, perhaps because it is very small (Serif fonts are good for printing, but notoriously bad for Webpages). Also, I need more contrast on the text and background. I wear glasses, and yes, I am older.
. . . I think there is a bit too much center alignment in them. I would recommend especially in the right column left-aligning the content-maybe even justifying the text.
None
On the Photo Gallery section, I didn't like how the text for each picture wrapped around the picture. It made it very hard to read. It would be great if they were just blocks of text below each picture.
None
More graphics.
I'm on dialup so I can't get to the music or videos. But that's *my* problem.
The flyout menus do not work, and I could not get the mouse to go over the submenu section
On the Folknotes page - It's instead of what I think should be It's in the title - A Big Festival Greeting From Our President, Steve Delap: It's getting to be a habit...
No
I didn't notice any errors.
No
Everything works fine
Not that I found
Didn't notice any.
Yes, on the About page.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
I had to hunt around before I found it on the Contact Us Page. You might want to say on the homepage under "Join us in the fun..." something like, Please refer to our Contact Page to find out more information on how to join the Sonoma County Folk Society.
Yes
Yes
Figured it was either on the About or Contact page, click first on the about page.
On the contact page under "membership"
Yes, in the Contact Us section.
I looked in "Community" first, then Contact Us.
I hunted around on the homepage and then found it on the Contact Us Page
On the Contact Us page.
Ok
On the contact page
Yes, found calendar. Font is way, way too small, and lines are too close together to read easily. (see earlier comments about font size, old eyes - the photos of the singers look about my age.
Easy to find, not as easy to read, all the events are squished together
Yes, it was easily marked on the nav bar on the left hand side. It was easy to read with the months clearly marked at the top of the page.
As I said earlier, I found it a bit difficult to read. The column for days is unlabeled so I wasn't sure what the numbers were at first, and because they are centered vertically in their cells, it's difficult to tell where one day ends and the next begins. Consider dividing each table row somehow, such as with unobtrusive borders?
Easy to find, easy to read, though I wondered why it did not include dates.
Yes
Yes
Found it, liked it. It"s easy to find my way around it.
Great Work, nice site. Very informative. Easy to navigate (once the menu is working) it is layed out nice.
I don't care for the main banner. It looks a bit haphazard, and I think it could use a graphical element besides people.
I think the site looks great! Love the use of colors!
Great job.
could be great if you spend more time doing the survey online and avoid the hard time of rewriting the questions all over again remember we are trying to help the less you can do is making easy for us to help you! No offence is just a comment!
I think the site looks great, you did a wonderful job!
Really well-organized site. It loaded relatively quickly for me, which is a plus on dialup. I miss the music clips & videos. Good job.
Overall comments and responses were great. Nevertheless, the designer took close notice of the suggestions and user responses and made minor but impactful adjustments. The designer altered the css behind the calendar table section, greatly adding to its viewability. She also lightened the background color, which, while keeping with the original color theme people liked so much, greatly increased the readibility of the text. The client had specified the font and the dimensions of the pages so changes in response to those comments were not possible. The desinger also created a join button, a join form and added additional call outs to join to the copy. The designer was tireless in perfecting the site and I am sure that there were many additional tweaks to perfect the site according to testing and comments.