Past couple of weeks we were busy with many new small small changes to the UX (User eXperience). Finally we have the launched the new changes.
Home page have been changed and things are more visible. Like all the channels ( wine & dine, lifestyle, local services, shopping) are more visible with tabbed structure.
New thing which we added was events. It involved a great lot of things, other then the UI. Events are collected from different sources and then changed to the datatype we wanted. We have categorized them into the following –
- Conferences, Conventions
- Learning, Education
- Art, Antiques, Crafts
- Sales, Retail, Open Houses
- Performing Arts, Theater, Dance, Drama
- Music, Concerts
- Religion, Spirituality
- Family Fun, Kids
- Animals, Pets
- Books, Poetry, Literature
- Business, Finance, Investing
- Charities, Fund Raisers
- Clubs, Associations
- Community, Neighborhood
- Festivals, Fairs, Parades
- Food, Cuisine, Wine
- Movies, Film
- Museums, Zoos, Attractions
- Nightlife, Parties
- Other
- Outdoors, Recreation
- Property, Furnishing, Furniture
- Schools, Colleges and Alumni
- Science
- Sports
- Technology
- Travel, Tours
and events for a month in advance can be seen. Well if you ask me then my favorite will be Nightlife, Parties and Technology. You can also send the event details to your friends and family over email and sms.
Yes these are some of the things that have kept us busy. Stay tuned, we will be updating some new and cool things this week.
But there is no way one can list an event on your site . Even members cannot do. If this site has to thrive on UGC then please allow that. BTW great UI.
ANd please keep the file size to atleast 1MB so that it can accomodate a graphics heavy file. Unlike Sulekha which only allows 5KB(puny ).
Hi Aditya,
Some of the enhancements pointed out by you are already work in progress. Very soon we will launch the changes. Also thanks for the comments in UI.
Well did you try Laila’s MOBILE search capabilities? You can send you query to 58989 via SMS, or even browse via WAP site (m.asklaila.com). Read more about it here (http://www.asklaila.com/LailaMobileDemo/)
Say tuned I will update you one more changes with Laila.
-Sumeet