O'Hare International Airport

[scooterscot]

Is it just me or if Chicago's international airport website a little crap? Or have I indeed missed something...

Chicago Department of Aviation

[AtW]

You whine too much.

Did I mention I don't like you?

[scooterscot]

You whine too much.

Did I mention I don't like you?

I'm British it's what we do.

Emotion are not a prerequisite for posting, nevertheless, may your round parts grow cubic and fester at the corners.

[AtW]

I'm British it's what we do.

Don't you dare hiding behind stereotypes - you are a cowardly whiny supposedly "charging high rates in euros" whino, ffs - given your boasts about how much you supposedly "earn" in euro land you should be using NetJets like very self respecting contractor starting with DimPrawn and ending with sasguru

[NickFitz]

It's a bit crap if you prize looks over information. On the other hand, it seems to put all the ways to access the information you might actually need right up front, where such ways ought to be.

Not knowing any flight numbers I wasn't able to search specifically on those, but it gave me information on every damn flight it had when I left the form blank and hit the button, which is better than many such sites.

It also uses one's default browser font size, rather than forcing one to endure whatever some designer in their early twenties likes to see on the super-duper monitor they themselves have, which is normally about 9px and entirely useless to anybody over the age of forty-five even if they have hipster frames on their spectacles.

I loathe drop-down menus on web sites but theirs don't try to do smartarse tulip like animating, and the "Business Information" menu has "Contracting Opportunities" as its first option - in Chicago that probably means dumpsters or suchlike rather than anything we might be up to, but at least the opportunity is there.

Overall, it's like one of those places where the receptionist is a bit plain but gets things done: much better than a place with a stunner on the desk who can't even dial the extension of the person you need to see.

The information is there and you can access it. If you find the information unacceptable because the entity that delivers it hasn't shaved its legs, I would suggest that your priorities are wrong.

[doodab]

It looks alright to me.

[realityhack]

It's functional. I'd rather have a simple, usable site than an artwork you'd spend ages trying to navigate.
There is the 'aesthetic effect' to consider - where a site's perceived usability is greater, the more beautiful the design... but this site is simple enough for that not to be too much of a factor. My favourite part of the site is the Terminal Tunes section - where you can search for music you heard by date/time/terminal. Cheese-tastic. O'Hare Music Tracker

[Sysman]

It's a bit crap if you prize looks over information. On the other hand, it seems to put all the ways to access the information you might actually need right up front, where such ways ought to be.

Not knowing any flight numbers I wasn't able to search specifically on those, but it gave me information on every damn flight it had when I left the form blank and hit the button, which is better than many such sites.

I am reminded of one wintry weekend when weather reports had me checking Manchester Airport to see if it would be open.

It wouldn't let me in without creating an account, and once I'd done that I found it simply awful,

It also uses one's default browser font size, rather than forcing one to endure whatever some designer in their early twenties likes to see on the super-duper monitor they themselves have, which is normally about 9px and entirely useless to anybody over the age of forty-five even if they have hipster frames on their spectacles.

My all time prize went to an HP network management program. It was obvious that it had been developed on a whacking great screen, and this was at a time when you were lucky to have anything larger than a 14" CRT monitor on a typical office desk.

Compaq, used a font size of 1 on its web site and refused to change it, in spite of many complaints. I'd regularly copy and paste stuff into a text editor to read it.

[scooterscot]

So where on this marvellous website can I find the destinations it serves?

Is a left luggage facility available?

[SimonMac]

I'm British it's what we do.

Emotion are not a prerequisite for posting, nevertheless, may your round parts grow cubic and fester at the corners.

Emotion's are or Emotion is