Posted by rwap on 07/25/06 20:39

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Dr. Compynei wrote:
>
> > My theatre outsources ticket sales to an outside company, who then outsource
> > their webdesign and IT systems.
> >
> > I want to link off our theatres website a link to buy tickets from the
> > following site
> > http://www.ticketsatbolton.com/
>
> You can't - They have a badly designed inaccessible (and very ugly)
> site. In particular they've use JavaScript for links, which is a bad
> idea in general but causes you a particular problem when you want to do
> this type of linkage from the outside.
>
> I'm not even going to begin working out a kludge around this mess. The
> starting point is to fire some "web designers" who don't know the first
> thing about their trade (or at least get them to get their act
> together). This booking site should be replaced forthwith, it's just
> too nasty to accept.

Yes it does appear to be a terrible website - developed by a
programming hack - even all the dates etc are hardcoded. I
particularly like how when you have chosen a date range from the popup
(you cannot amend it directly), it changes the format just before doing
a search.

I tried searching for Dad's Army on the site and it doesn't find
anything - just a blank page even when changing the dates for the next
12 months.

If I were the original poster, I would get in touch with the Albert
Halls Bolton (or the designers), say what they want to do and ask them
to redesign the site so that it can be found in search engines for
starters !! If there was proper co-operation, both sites would use the
same database to at least ensure that the list of events on the 2 sites
were the same.

Rich Mellor
www.internetbusinessangels.com

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