Another launch for the day job

Monday November 8, 2004 at 11:57 pm | Filed under Me, On the Web

Tonight at work we launched a new Disneyland.com site. It’s the 4th revision of the site that I’ve been a part of in my 6 years of being in the being in the internet group. I’m pretty proud of this one, and I think it’s one of our best. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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  1. wayne allen Says:
    November 9th, 2004 at 8:33 am

    Hey, the site looks great! If you need I know this guy who can help you make the spanish webpage… he he he

  2. Arlen Says:
    November 9th, 2004 at 10:00 am

    What I like best is the bottom part of the left bar–the 2-3 stars that jut into the color. Very cool–I’d like to figure out how to do something like that on my own sites.

    I clicked on “Families with teens” from the “Choose your experience” menu, and it went nowhere. No response from my click (in Safari). But it did respond to Annual Passholder, and the other two options.

    Looks like there are some validation problems, which is to be expected on such a huge project, and which are only theoretical problems, and not actual ones. The Disney Store UK has a cool site that validates: http://disneystore-shopping.disney.co.uk/store/Home.aspx
    Looks less complex than disney.com.

  3. Joe Says:
    November 9th, 2004 at 6:28 pm

    Hmm.. I just tried that Families with Teens link and it worked fine for me in Safari. Not sure what the deal is there.

    As for validating, I assume you mean W3C? Can’t speak to that as I didn’t code the site, but I do know we decided to ditch compatability with IE 5, which was a big decision (not sure if that has anything to do with it not validating). I do know that it’s pretty cutting edge as far as CSS goes. It’s a table-less site!

  4. Arlen Says:
    November 10th, 2004 at 5:27 am

    That’s cool about CSS. Yes, I was referring to W3C. Like I said, validating code is theoretically a good thing, but practically it is not essential. If the site works for its users, nobody cares if it “validates” or not.

  5. Arlen Says:
    November 10th, 2004 at 3:12 pm

    Strange . . . I revisited the site, and now only Annual Passholders works. The 3 “Families with . . .” links do nothing when I click on them in Safari. They all work in Firefox.

  6. Joe Says:
    November 10th, 2004 at 8:31 pm

    I’ll continue to monitor the fan sites and the Guest comments. I haven’t heard of anyone having trouble with those links yet. But it a pattern shows we’ll investigate.

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