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What Do You Think Of The National Parks' New Look?

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By Kurt Repanshek - April 13th, 2012

 

Well, it's been a week or so. What do you think of the new look of the websites across the National Park System?

They're bold, with the expansive photo hole at the top of the page. And the type font is definitely more attractive than that of the old sites.

But do you find them easy to navigate? Can you find what you're looking for without spending an inordinate amount of time?

One of the new features I find nice to have is the "alerts" bar that resides just below the homepage photo when the park in question has some important news to relate to visitors.

There are still some bugs. Not all parks were ready with all the content when the Washington office pushed out the new "skin." As a result, some links lead to 404 (Page Not Found) errors.

What do you think? Is there anything missing that you'd like to see, or something you'd like to see in a more obvious place?

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Submitted by admin on April 16, 2012 - 3:12pm.

Kurt, the specific park search function is still available. (yay!) When on a park page begin typing in the top right search box and a drop down menu appears with the option "this park" or "NPS.gov", also starts suggesting what it thinks you are searching for. Took sometime to find it though!


Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 16, 2012 - 3:52pm.

Well that's certainly good to know! Thanks!!


Submitted by admin on April 21, 2012 - 9:36pm.

One issue I have are with the links. Let's say you click on "Plan Your Visit." Instead of bringing those items to the page it expands links underneath that main heading in the left sidebar. Would be nice to have the links on the main section of the page, not just hidden in the sidebars.


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