The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan website launched about an hour ago.
Still struggling with one issue--e-mailing all the members to let them know their user IDs is not working as advertised--but I hope to have it resolved soon.
In the meantime, enjoy the site and feel free to give your opinion in the comments here.
looks like you won most of your design arguments :-)
Just one point - if you go to a blog it's really hard to read the posted by information:
Posted by nantoka on Jan 24, 2003 (31 reads)
On Mozilla it's supa-mega small...
I sound like a pot and kettle, since I use Flash on my employers website (www.allegheny.edu) but the Flash seemed to be there just to be there, it didn't offer much in terms of user experience except taking up a large chunk of screen real estate, above the fold if you will. The colors are nice and i like the headlines and events. Everything looks good on IE but the Flash slows way down in Safari.
Yeah, the Flash is just there without regard for anything other than looking pretty. But that was part of the wish list from the Club and they are happy with it, so...
I do need to go in and change that itty-bitty font stuff. Now that the site is entirely mine, I can. The developers didn't appreciate my fiddling with their code (and they got cranky when I requested little style changes--there was no winning on details with this project sometimes).
As serendipity would have it, I noticed this post just a few days after making a link to the FCCJ map on the old version of the site. At the time, I was thinking to myself, "Sheesh, the FCCJ really needs to hire someone to make the site look nicer..."
I'm glad to see that they did! (And I'm also glad I noticed this post, which allowed me to update the link. It now points to a much more appealing site.)
Nice work!