A Few Changes With this Week’s Technical Release
There is a lot going on the technical front. Let me update you.
We released a new version of Voyage.tv today which resolves some of the bugs that we discovered after the release in late October. We tested rigorously for 5 days prior to the release, but we still encountered a couple of minor issues.
Specifically, we have fixed the issues with top 4 thumbnails on the Deals page and have cleaned up some alignment issues on the Home Page. We have also brought the H1 headline into conformity with our graphics standards.
If you are a frequent visitor to the site, you will see that we are adding new pages for each of the Signature Videos, as well as for Hotels. The idea is to have a landing page for each of the Signature Programs or Hotel videos that a Member can land on, grab an embed code or simply bookmark a page.
We hope the changes enhance the usability of the site.
Our next release is scheduled for mid December and is focused on improving the presentation of the Hotel Page, the Special Offers Pages and some of the interior pages. The main change to the Hotel Page is the move to an embedded video player on the page. We have found that having a pop-up player on the Hotel Page is not working well for many users as it is taking hem away from much of the surrounding information.
We are also re-working the Special Offers page to improve the information presented and to highlight the main “selling points” around the offer. You will see some great new page layouts on both the Hotel Page and the Special Offers Page.
There will also be some new pages available – we have created a Points of Interest Page for the POI videos that we are launching with the New York Cycle. You will also that we have changed the interior pages to make them a bit easier to navigate.
Outside of the Voyage.tv site, we continue to work on extending the availability of our programming and hotel clips. We have a new YouTube Channel that we are launching in early December in partnership with YouTube and have a revamped FaceBook Page that will be available about the same time. We are also working on the launch of several iPhone applications in January.
Stay tuned! –MJM
Tags: Michael McNabb, Voyage TV
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