Hi everyone!

Well, as promised, I'm going to be keeping you up to date with developments at MusBook throughout the summer.

We've been having some problems with the front page of the website overnight, but our development team in Asia is working non-stop to get it sorted out. We hope all will be back to normal within a couple of hours.

Improving MusBook's Usability

The work going on this week is unglamorous but necessary, and it is going to make your experience with MusBook a lot smoother. Essentially, we're combing through the entire site in great depth, sorting out all the tiny little usability problems that don't amount to much individually, but together make using the website a nightmare if they're not sorted out.

I'm referring to things like upload boxes not being in the most obvious place, buttons being faulty, broken links... little issues like that, which we call 'usability problems'.

The basic rule is: if you have to think about what you need to do, we've failed!

So, don't expect any major new features this week! Instead, we're focusing on the details, and making sure your experience is as smooth as can be.

Front Page / TV / Magazine / ConSanFron upgrade

We're going to restructure the site so that it's divided into main sections: Social Network, Music, TV, Magazine, ConSanFron and Shop. This should make it a LOT easier for you to find what you want - the site structure is just too complicated at the moment. We're deep in mockups for how the new 'front pages' for each section will look, and we will be rolling these changes out gradually over the next few weeks.

New Job Listings

This week, you'll also notice that our long-time job listings are being upgraded to a searchable tool that allows registered users to post jobs. We're still going to be the most comprehensive job listings around, as our Jobs Administrator in Melbourne will be searching the globe for all the latest postings, and adding them to the site. But if you want to use MusBook for your main vacancy listing, you can now do that: just log in, add a job, including a full listing, and post it onto the site.

We expect the job listings to be fully available by the end of the week.

That's all for now! I'll update you again soon.

Yours,

Justin Delleur @ MusBook Support