gocivilairpatrol.com

[Phil Hirons, Jr.]

My biggest gripe is how they've changed the location of the information for Level I.

Before the change, I could give new members a nice simple website to find their training:  http://www.cap.gov/one

Compare that to the new site:  http://members.gocivilairpatrol.com/cap_university/professional_development/afiadl__cap_student_page/level_one.cfm

Quite a difference, don't you think.  Which one do you think would be better for new members?

I mentioned this issue to the PD Registrar at NHQ on Monday. I hope they could at least give us http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/one as a redirect to the monstrosity above.

[sardak]

Over in the ES section there is discussion how two different pages at gocivilairpatrol.com have two different lists of approved supplements for Ops series regulations. BTW the url for one of the two pages is 189 characters long.

In looking for creation dates of the pages, I found that they reference the web development company Global Reach. On Global Reach's website, I found this testimonial for their design of the cap.gov site.
http://www.globalreach.com/clients/testimonials/

"Global Reach delivered on several requirements we felt were critical for our new web site design - reduced administrative tasks, better standardization of look and feel..."
With this link to their client portfolio for CAP.

However, the logo for SiteViz is shown at the bottom of the gocivilairpatrol.com site. Turns out SiteViz is just another trademark of Global Reach. This second portfolio page for CAP has a different description of what CAP does.

Mike

[ltcmark]

I just viewed the source code for gocivilairpatrol.com.  They use Shockwave programming.  Shockwave is great for an add-in to a website, but if you develop the entire page out of Shockwave, it is a dog.  This is especially true if you have a slow connection.  Your browser also has to support Shockwave.

I also spoke with a buddy of mine who does professional programming.  He said a site like this would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 per page.  Again, since Shockwave requires special programming software and programming skills, he thought it would actually be more.  You can do the math; number of pages x $ = $$$$$$$$

Go figure, just like the government to throw lots of money at something and it still not work right.

I think I will start a bank and apply for bailout money