Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback - Searching on GoKM is a nightmare, I will use google with the site:gokunming.com search modifier to get better results. Sort order should be Relevance/Date/word hits (do you use full text queries? I think you are MySQL right?). Search results page should be better laid out.
- Sort out the Events sidebar, its quite bad (I previously said my piece on this, you guys said you were thinking and implementing the same).
- The events page, shocker. Move the calendar to the middle section and stretch the words across the page.
- I think you are designed for 1024*768 and as of January this year that was 13% of people (Jan 2008 50%) on the web and dropping fast. Recommend increasing the page size and using wrapping for those on old resolutions.
- Better menus on your classified page (www.gokunming.com/en/classifieds/). Having more like the forums page would be better but recommend redesigning both.
- The first thing I do on my mobile is switch to full view. The mobile version is pants plain and simple. If you really want to do it right, invest in making an app for Android/iPhone, but this is a serious commitment if you aren't trained in making these already. If not, I wouldn't even worry about a mobile version anymore as screen resolutions are getting bigger and bandwidth is no longer a problem for your very lite site anyway.
- Align the Private Messages with the Profile heading in the dashboard... actually I could come up with a lot here... how deep should we go?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Advice for Summer Travel You could probably do Laos - Thailand - Myanmar - India, but a month wouldn't leave you much time in each place. I would probably just go to Myanmar and India if I was you (India is huge though you will probably only be able to see a small part).
The reasons are mainly around location - Russia is miles away and you probably should have gone there when you were in Beijing. Laos and Cambodia you can go to another time because they are so damn close and both are pretty small - one of the national holiday weeks you can head to each place and see pretty much everything that's interesting. Myanmar and India are relatively close too, both are pretty big though so would require a couple of weeks each for a nice explore and to get into the culture.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Oh yeah - regarding the trails on Xi Shan - is it OK to go exploring different trails? Anything I need to be aware of (dogs/army bases/people who don't like you on their land etc)?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Cool, thanks guys! Didn't realise there was an annual pass to all parks, cheers ludwig.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Will probably be moving to the south soon, in the north there is pretty good running along the river and up Chanchong Shan when it isn't closed. I figure there would be some cool tracks up Xi Shan to do some trail running... but can you run there across the bridge from Haigeng park area? Google earth/searching turns up nothing so not sure if its possible...
Any other good trail running in the south?
Spring City looks to embrace sweeping green agenda
发布者Stop talking sense Mike. For China to be able to continue claiming it is a developing nation (and hence shirk all international responsibilities) it must continue to grow stupidly while acting inefficiently. All attempts at greening some part of their economy at the moment are token offerings used to accelerate growth (creating new markets) and use as weapons in any environmental negotiations.
Xuning Temple, Kunming's mountaintop sanctuary
发布者The road out is commonly where MTB riders going up or down the mountain start and end. You should see people on mountain bikes going in and out of the road if going on the weekend. It is also just North of a pedestrian over bridge (where I assume the 2nd to last pic is taken) and can get dusty as hell when cars come down.
Around Town: Kunming Museum
发布者Classic, big "NO PHOTOGRAPHS" sign, and the previous picture you have a girl taking a pic of a picasso! Is this the museum across from the PSB where everyone has to go to get their visa's done?
Black carbon and women's health in rural Yunnan
发布者Have people been to village houses before where they use the round compressed coal pellets for heating/cooking? These are coal pellets filled with holes, about the size of a large mans fist.
Whenever I am around them I pretty much begin choking! The particulates and toxicity of these things I suspect is pretty high as well.
Unfortunately going electric in Yunnan (likely producing most of its electricity from hydro) seems to be the best way for heating, when taking into account the environmental and human health factors. At least if people light these type of unventilated (no chimney) fires...
Welcome to the new GoKunming!
发布者And the major chunk missing - the new reviews and listings section still isn't online, apparently its been in testing since March??