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March 4, 2008

SXSWi Website needs help

I have been perusing through the SXSWi website and am really disappointed.  If you view the panel schedules, it does not show when the panel ends or who the panelist is unless you click on the detail link.  Even worse, if you try and print it, you will find there is no print stylesheet.  You will get two pages printed out where one is almost completely blank.  So I thought I would try using the panels by category list.  There is a nice long list again.  This time though it doesn’t even tell you the start time, much less the panelist or the end time.  So again, you have to click on the link to go to the panel detail page.  Wait, there is no link.   Hopefully there is a better way to decide what panels you want to visit and I just haven’t found it.

Sorry for the rant, but this has happened in past years and I have emailed in my comments but the site hasn’t improved much.  I just don’t understand how a site for an event that attracts the world’s best web developers can be so incomplete.  Someone please tell me that I am missing something.

Posted by kidbrax in Panels, Random, Speakers |


4 Comments »

  1. Hey thanks so much for the feedback… we are always trying to make changes based upon community input and do our best with our limited staff/resources. On the subject, you may be interested in this panel session!

    Comment by the interactivator — March 4, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

  2. In the meantime, fortunately there are services like
    http://sched.org that step up and fill in the gaps.

    Comment by atxryan — March 4, 2008 @ 3:07 pm

  3. @atxryan: Thanks for the link, much better.

    Comment by kidbrax — March 4, 2008 @ 4:43 pm

  4. There’s also http://sxsw.bside.com but I will be interested to see what the panelists have to say in that session.

    Comment by stomptokyo — March 5, 2008 @ 3:57 pm

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