tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post733843874910873270..comments2024-03-19T11:37:07.200+00:00Comments on The GENES Blog: FindmyPast - Scottish censusesChris Patonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05073425769475523109noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-78071730924441218212014-04-16T09:27:09.383+01:002014-04-16T09:27:09.383+01:00They must be reading this blog. One new feature on...They must be reading this blog. One new feature on FMP that is actually an improvement. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/search-all-uk-records Very good, but they still haven't totally grasped the idea of not wasting space on a page. Now do that sort of thing with the rest of the ruined site features, and we'll be flying.Hugonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-78061352823103584642014-04-12T01:28:13.382+01:002014-04-12T01:28:13.382+01:00Speaking of giving positive feedback suggestions t...Speaking of giving positive feedback suggestions to FMP, most of which address specific individual faults on FMP which were caused by and are integral to the new format at a fundamental level, i.e. separate symptoms and side efffects of the main illness. I just noticed something which pertains to one of the main complaints about the new format FMP.<br /><br />It's the sitemap page for the RootsChat forum and it's very compact, neatly laid out, quick and easy to view and to use, very simple, intuitive, and hugely user friendly.<br /><br />One of the major and glaringly obvious and most customer detested features of the new format FMP is the needlessly complex and messy layout and scale of the search pages and the vast amount of scrolling that format necessitates, and that is merely at a cosmetic level, even ignoring the vast amount of time consuming search filter options that the user is now obliged to tediously enter and the badly designed and very user unfriendly and equally laborious search option criterion that are provided.<br /><br />It's simply a very poor piece of page design, the RootsChat forum sitemap page by comparison, is vastly superior, it gives me the impression of being the sort of page layout that an efficient secretary might create, the FMP search pages give me the impression of being the product of a hyper caffeinated design artist.<br /><br />Personally speaking I think that the RootsChat sitemap page is brilliant, and that a similar compact, simple, and unfussy format would be a vast improvement over the current FMP search pages and site navigation pages.Hugonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-91958914240469151892014-04-11T15:12:50.969+01:002014-04-11T15:12:50.969+01:00And the specific census forms for the 1841 and 191...And the specific census forms for the 1841 and 1911 censuses for England & Wales use the same terminology for the TNA reference as the 1851 thru 1901. Which won't ******* work! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com