I can’t seem to go 5 continuous minutes in my life without encountering some form of human lack of logic, sloppiness, carelessness, or stupidity, and I’m getting fed up with it wasting my life away. After sitting here for several minutes looking at every square inch of Moog’s home page ( http://www.moogmusic.com/ ) trying to figure out how to get to the Moogerfooger Ring Modulator to look something up, I finally give up. If anybody cares to give it a shot and can succeed, please list the mysterious chain of events and button presses which actually takes you off of their homepage toward the goal of getting closer to and finally arriving at the Ring Mod page.
And here’s another challenge. Assume you didn’t know there was a Moog forum and you went to the Moogmusic website to find out if there was one. I’d be interested if that is also possible. Something I also failed at in the past.
NOTE: I just went back and found out that the link to this moog forum is under the menu “Dealer Locator”. Of course. That makes sense. You want to know if there is a forum, so you look up moog dealers to find out. Whatever.
NOTE #2: Uh, about 5 minutes have gone by and another stupid human problem rears its head. My Firefox spell checker thinks the word “locator” is misspelled. I guess I need a spell checker app to correct Firefox’s spell checker.
NOTE #3: I now see they also have a Moog Forum graphic mixed in with a barrage of other superficial sites and logos which just looked like advertising. And this is the problem with information overload and shoving a pile of text and graphics in a person’s face. Check out the link below. Clean, spacious, just one menu across the top of the page. Something to learn from.
I see the problem… they got rid of their horizontal menu across the top where I would normally choose “Products”.
Now I have to choose under “New Products” on the left, MIDI-MuRF then use the breadcrumb path on its page to goto “Products” then finally to Moogers & the RingMod.
So much for ease of navigability. Moog: fix it or you’ll turn a lot of people off & lose sales! Every site should have clear, concise, easy to use navigation as its been proven a person browsing a particular page only spends a precious 10 seconds or less before giving up.
Maybe it’s just my computer but I’m not having any problems navigating the site. Products 9click) MoogerFooger on the left( click) mF102 click. Took all of 3 seconds. Forum link below listing on the left.
It’s not a horrible site by any means, but it could definitely use an overhaul to make it a bit more easily navigable and a bit more aesthetically pleasing. I agree that the forums are tough to find too—if I hadn’t found them via a Google search, I probably never would have discovered them through the Moog site.
I can’t seem to go 5 continuous minutes in my life without encountering some form of human lack of logic, sloppiness, carelessness, or stupidity, and I’m getting fed up with it wasting my life away.
Buy a mirror and you’ll be able to save 4 1/2 minutes.
It occurs to me that my retired and not-so-computer-savvy parents were able to navigate the Moog site in order to get me a t-shirt as a gift. If they can do it, (almost) anyone can.
