Eventually, can you list me as a person to contact on the contact page?
Of course. I'll add this to my to do list.
On the attendee page: when you hover over the name link, the information about that person is shown at the top of the page as opposed to next to the name. For example, if I hover over Jack, his info is beyond the limits of my screen without scrolling up. If I scroll up, I can't hover over Jack's name.
I rebuilt the attendee page. This should be a non-issue now.
If you, or someone, can provide me with some images. I can include them.
A neat feature but to add to what Kevin says, what about having the pop up window to the right of the name? As you continue scanning down the list, the pop window is out of the way of the list. Right now, it hovers over the list. You have to click to the far right to get rid of the popup before going to the next name.
I rebuilt the attendee page. This is now a non-issue.
Also will there be any info/links provided for BPK or FLP ?
There can be. I'll put it on my to do list
I'm nitpicking a bit, but technically, when the registration email comes, it shouldn't come from Jesse Angell, should it?
This will be fixed on the pubic launch when Chip points the domain at my name servers.
Nice work, Jesse. So, how do you like Ruby now that you've had a chance to work with it?
The first weekend I spent on this project I attempted to use Ruby On Rails. I must say--it's pretty cool. I'm sure it's extremely powerful once you learn how to use it. My problem was, I didn't know Ruby or Rails. So I decided to use PHP. I ended up reinventing the wheel several times over again. Reflecting back--Perhaps I should have just put more effort towards learning RoR.
On the Flying In page, add the runway numbers to the labeled picture. The text has the information, but for those not familiar with the airport, it would help.
On to do list.
Is there a still shot from the arrival direction that you could add, showing the goalpost trees you referred to?
I'm not sure.
It would be nice if someone could come up with an arrival procedure. In my opinion--we really need everyone doing the Dam approach.
On the register page, if your passwords don't match, show the error message in red to make it stand out. It's in the same font as the rest of the page.
Fixed
You said "try to break it". I entered an email address that wasn't valid (t... @ w........com) with spaces in it on either side of the @ sign, and it still said my registration was successful. Consider regex'ing the input for valid email address structure.
Fixed. Improved the e-mail validation checks significantly.
In the registration email, you say "if you can not click it copy and paste it into your browser". I'm going to put on my Nick grammar hat and suggest that it should read "If you cannot click the URL, copy and paste it into your browser." "can not" is also correct in some cases, but indicates when you have a choice in the matter, to do it or not. In your text, the user doesn't have a choice, it either works or it doesn't.
http://alexfiles.com/cannot.shtml
Fixed.
I'd suggest adding another line break to get the URL into its own paragraph, separate from the body of the text, so it stands out.
Fixed.
On the Contact Us page, if you fill in the name and comments but NOT the "Your Email" field, you show an error "You must fill in the Your E-mail field", but you do it on a new page that wipes out the form. I can click the Back button and my contents are still there. A novice user, however, might just click the "Contact Us" link again, in which case they lose the message they typed. #1 rule, lose no data. So, I'd suggest either putting the error message (in red) at the top of the SAME PAGE as the form, and leaving what they typed, so they can simply correct the error (preferred fix), OR on your error page either put a message telling the user to click the browser back button to fix the error, or add a "back" link with a javascript history.back command.
Fixed.
Once I was registered, it took me a few minutes to figure out where to register for the event, or to see who was attending. Can you make links for those common tasks more visible, at the top of each page, perhaps, for users who are logged in?
I'll have to think of how to best handle this. The site has been designed so that adding another fly-in is just a single click away. This is why some of the navigation is as it is.
On the Annual Fly-In page, 3rd paragraph starts by saying "you can read how it all started here". Can "here" be a link? I couldn't find the history of the event, maybe it's a future feature?
That was a copy and paste off the old Gaston's site. I'll have to add the history page off the old site. On my to do list.
You mix "Fly-In" and "fly in"; can you use one consistently? I like "Fly-In".
Fly-In it is.
The attendee list says "7 named listed" instead of "names". "1 names with low confidence" (use singular "name" with 1).. (I told you these were "nits"!)
Fixed.
Attendee List, as Spike says, doesn't make it readily apparent how to say "I'm coming!". Can you add links for that to the main part of the page?
I'll try and think of a way to improve this. see above.
Attendee list hover: comments are one word per line?? Nick's shows errors in the hover output, "failed to open stream" and "function.array-values" errors.
I fixed this by rebuilding the attendee page. It now displays differently.
Feature request: hover over the attendee's departure airport to see a skyvector map pop up with a direct-to Gastons course plotted, so we can see where they are coming from.
Cool idea. I'll add it to my to do list.
Photo Gallery: I uploaded 5 photos at the same time, only four of them made it through. Not sure what happened to the last one?? (it was of Dave flying the Baron, shot from the back seats).
No idea. Can you reproduce this?
Photo Gallery: It allows me to upload the same photo more than once. See my gallery where I uploaded the sunset in flight photo twice from the same upload screen. Not sure if you care about that or not.
I don't think thats a bug. The system assigns new file names so there isn't going to be a collision. I suppose I could do md5 check sums of the images to check for duplicates--but I'm not sure that it's worth it.
Annual Fly-In page, Photos link. No galleries are listed. Perhaps the page is just a placeholder for future feature? This page should also give me a link to add pictures if I'm logged in, to my gallery.
Well. If you look at your gallery that you created, you'll see that there is a 'Edit Gallery'. If you look in 'Edit Gallery' there is a Link to Event option. You can link the gallery to the 2008 event and then it'll show up on the 2008 page.
The reason I did this is to easily support multiple years. This way people can create photo galleries for whatever reason they want. But when they are creating a gallery that has to do with the Fly-In--they can link it to the fly-in. This makes it easy to see all the galleries that have to do with that year.
So--The reason it's empty is--No one has linked a gallery to the 2008 fly-in because no one has been at the 2008 fly-in to take pictures yet.
Things like this really need to be explained somewhere on the site. The problem is--it's hard for me to explain because I know it in and out.
It'd be helpful if someone could write a FAQ for the site.
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Jesse,
Great work! However, I was unable to register. I got this error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in /var/www/virtual/beta.jesseangell.com/html/logic/register.php on line 35
Fixed. Sorry about that. You tried to view the page when I was fixing something in all the above fixes.
This isn't technical, this is more whiny. 
