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Anyone else find the Citroen website unusable? It seems to take an age to load up, or move about different parts. I have tried at different times or days and used different computers. Downright infuriating!
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Just tried it - slow but workable.
It's running faster than HJ's Backroom Forum at the moment !
Edited by Ruperts Trooper on 25/10/2007 at 23:09
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ive used it about 6 times this week as research for a new car. sometimes its very slow and others it fairly good but ive never had it going fast.
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Have you tried using Firefox. I've had immense trouble with Internet Explorer and the Citroen website, so I tried Firefox, and it was a bit better
This seems to be a long term problem with the Citroen website, not a short term one.
The Car Configurator doesn't always work with IE, but does with Firefox.
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Many website developers get a bit carried away with large graphics files, Flash animations, links to other sites (of variable quality) etc. which load speedily on a high-bandwidth corporate intranet - but are not so quick over many domestic connections.
Very high usage sites like E**y or Yahoo! tend to have much simpler interfaces with good browser compatibility.
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i use firefox and get differing results but when i use the c4 piccaso micro site it's lightening fast even with the high quality graphics.
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"Many website developers get a bit carried away with large graphics files, Flash animations, links to other sites (of variable quality) etc."
Absolutely. Web designers (of whom I am occasionally one) should be made to 'eat their own dogfood' by test-driving on an old computer with 800x600 display and no broadband. That would change things!
Jacob Nielsen is the man...
www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
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I can't access the Honda website from work, because it has a flash front screen, and the work computers don't run flash (and don't allow it to be downloaded). Very poor design not to offer an alternative navigation around the site.
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"Many website developers get a bit carried away with large graphics files Flash animations links to other sites (of variable quality) etc."
And, in my experience, car manufacturers are about the worst for this. I have had trouble with various ones at various times - Honda and Ford spring to mind, but there are others.
p.s. JBJ - thanks for that excellent link!
Edited by tyro on 26/10/2007 at 13:33
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Thanks, Tyro. There has always been a problem with web designers trying to glamourise content to impress their clients (and to help justify their fees) while ignoring the people who will actually be using it!
I noticed this especially when I was helping my son (remotely) with his car shopping a few years ago, and was following Autotrader links to garages in an attempt to view their lists of s/h vehicles. Invariably, the sites had glossy, usually animated, home pages that took forever to load and often gave no clue how to call up a list of vehicles for sale (when they had one at all). Very few had a simple up-to-date list with prices or made this easy to find, despite the fact that it would have been the the first requirement of the majority of visitors!
I could only assume that they all wanted to create the impression that they only really wanted customers who were buying new, despite the fact that nearly all of them would have a used car to dispose of. In fact, on the day we went out together, the local Honda garage were incredibly snooty when we announced that we were only interested in their used vehicles, and never learned that we were buying for cash with no trade-in.
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