Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming Cultural Events Not Listed Oh yeah - with that events listing change on every page, you would then have every event listed and only go down to the end of the Oriellys listing for today. That would mean your first side bar picture advertisement would be visible directly from your homepage without scrolling - a big selling point for your advertisers as you would have 2 advertisements visible from your homepage without scrolling instead of 1. A visual representation of what I mean:
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Saturday, May 5
At bars/restaurants
Camel Bar
Moondog
Oriellys
Samoana
The Mask
Chapter One
The Dali Hump
Cacao
Cultural
Kunming Keats School
Music
TCG Nordica
Full Cup Cafe
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Obviously you would have to make a call on which section each one goes into but I am sure it wouldn't be too difficult (e.g. regular live music at Cacao doesn't fall into the Music section).
Hey wait, do I get paid for this?? Ha haa, I can say now that you can use my ideas royalty free no problem if you want!
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming Cultural Events Not Listed debaser - yes it is realistic to expect this. Why? Because if GoKunming is a place that lists events that people want to see, it will increase the people that visit the site. In turn this will increase the number of people that view the advertisers in the "Events" section and enrich both the website and the advertisers.
To be honest, if I was working for GoKM, I would redesign their Events section and calendar. With the Events side bar that appears on every page I would categorise into sections (maybe one for "At bars/restaurants", one for "Cultural", one for "Music" or some other categorisation). Then only list the name of the bar/restaurant/event, with more information available when you hover over the link i.e. a popup window stating the details (like the "From The Web" section on the homepage).
This would:
1. Make the Events side bar less wordy and cluttered (which is hard to read with so much info and doesn't list all events anyway - i.e. today there are 4 Other events which you have to go to the calendar to see, users could essentially view all events on one page unless there are 40 events in one day)
2. Enable people to hover over their favourite places still to see whats on (e.g. like Orielly's to see what sport they are showing today)
3. Provide a clearer breakdown to viewers who are only interested in particular sections so don't have to read through everything to find to the one they want - which invariably they won't so people will miss events of interest.
On their Calendar page, move the calendar to the top centre instead of a sidebar on the right. Stretch the wording across for each event - effectively you will be able to list more on a single page instead of having them squashed into a thin strip down the middle.
But hey, I am just a software designer, what would I know :-)
Forums > Travel Yunnan > get from Hekou to Kunming Jian Shui is quite nice actually, I would recommend it too! Its got a sort of "fake" old town which is less fake than others I have seen and isn't frequented much by tourists. There are some fairly pricey attractions there (e.g. the Confucian park I think was 60 kuai when I went... wooo... hen gui) but it was really really nice inside and totally photogenic. Actually even the fake old town is really nice to walk around and they have a big gate building at the end of the old town main street which is actually authentic and very cool. So yep, I can also recommend!
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming sucks the life out of me... Hey BillDan, I just came back from Metro and guess what they had! HAM! I was pretty shocked!
Its from Shanghai, labelled "French Ham" and looks like the sort of ham we have for Christmas. At 85 kuai for 3.5kg of the stuff, it doesn't look like too bad of a deal, particularly if you are a big ham eater like yourself. If you want to find it, go to the "Delicatessen" part of the cold section nearby the cheeses. It does have a number of preservatives and what not in it though, not sure if the same as you would get in the west, you might want to check it out.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming sucks the life out of me... No no, I wasn't being sarcastic!
Actually, I think its a kind of reverse therapy for anyone that reads it, we all kind of identify with you a little and go "Ha haa, so true!". Maybe the things you say just bother us a little bit and we don't know really how to form them into meaningful thoughts, but you enunciate them so clearly that when we read them we actually feel better! So, in fact, you are doing many lao wai a favour here, letting us privately blow of steam and recognise our own thoughts and feelings on different subjects... though yours are a little more extreme than mine!
Life in Kunming: A cabbie's perspective
Posted byAlso can take the pictures from the side of the road. Point the camera, hold it steady as possible while panning at the same speed as the car.
Delays plague Zheng He treasure ship launch
Posted byShould read "Typical construction takes about 1/4 of the time here than in the West!", ahh well its late, clearly need bed.
Delays plague Zheng He treasure ship launch
Posted byTypical construction takes about 1/4 of the time in the West! I would call this a-typical construction!
Typical would be if they built it in half the time, set sail on it, then it fell apart half a year later after they found out the beams were hollow, the sails made of paper and the hull wood was actually hollowed concrete made to look like wood!
Maybe the problem here is they want to make it high quality and aren't quite sure how to go about doing so!
And 137m ships made of wood coming from anywhere is a structural impossibility, I believe, without steel/iron/carbon fibre support or some very cunning way to fit very long beams of wood together where they hold their strength. And is it just luck that this happens to be the same length as Noah's Ark? If they did make them that long, likely they wouldn't have survived even minor swells, let alone going halfway around the world in uncertain weather...
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
Posted byAnd this terrible effect (when one of our friends fell off a swing and knocked herself unconscious requiring a hospital visit and stitches) deserves a firing squad? Or is execution only for the original crime of wilful drug taking, not for the negative effects?
And after we swore to each other to never do it again and none of us have since, are we still all miscreants that deserve the death penalty?
Hate to tell you, but you would likely be executing a third of the population of most developed nations if you decide everyone that has ever done drugs deserves death. We won't have much of a society left if such a plan was implemented, but maybe complete anarchy and civil war is what you want? In the US alone it is estimated that 125 million people have taken illicit drugs in their lifetime: www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Drug_Usage#sthash.0EZTAoMC.dpbs
No problem with executing 125 million in the US alone?
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
Posted byBut you said "Death penalty for all drug users... just execute all drug users since they serve no purpose in any society."
When asked if you were being sarcastic, you said "I am not being sarcastic at all".
I can only assume you believe I am not a useful member of society as a person who once took drugs and I deserve to be executed. Which is it? Off with my head or not? So many contradictions, I aren't sure how you keep it straight.