May 6, 2008
The Wonderland Ballroom Finally Gets a Real Web Site
It's taken roughly three years, but The Wonderland Ballroom finally has a real web site.
Moving away from the drab, desolate wasteland of design faux pas and '90s-esque, sparkling banners known as MySpace, The Wonderland Ballroom now has a much cleaner and simpler site for touting their food and beer.
The site now includes their full menu, as well as a listing of their current selection of beers, a photo gallery - including snapshots from their recent Sundress Fest - a shiny google map for the perpetually lost, and a mailing list.
Unfortunately though, the folks at Wonderland don't appear to be letting go of their MySpace roots yet. Their calendar of events still links back to a MySpace calendar, which requires a MySpace login - something, we suspect, much of the Wonderland crowd does not possess or still use. This means, for now, you'll have to keep a bookmark to the MySpace site to view their list of events. Also the "Friend Us" option is a bit misleading - a reference to becoming a friend on MySpace, rather than the more ubiquitous Facebook.
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wow, it's funny that they've moved forward from myspace, yet, design-wise, their web presence has seemed to move back to 1998-1999...
In case they read this: set up a google calendar - they are absurdly easy to embed in your web page.
Um, seriously? Wonderland having an actual website is nothing new. They've had one for years; though they seem to have recently revamped it.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/thewonderlandballroom.com/
And those pictures definitely aren't from the recent Sundress Fest.
I'd appreciate the web site a bit more if they'd spell things correctly. There are at least two misspelled beers on the front page. Also, their Home and About Us pages are actually one and the same - why are there two separate links in the sidebar??
I don't consider myself part of the Wonderland crowd referred to above, but I definitely don't have a myspace login; I agree a google calendar would be much simpler and easier to access.
Is this something that people were really clamoring for? As far I'm concerned a bar's website needs one thing, its address; anything else is just filler and annoying filler if it's not kept reasonably up to date.
is that frontpage design all apart of the hipster/bring back the ugly 90s movement?
Has Wonderland really only been around three years? Seems like it's older than that. I mean, not that they don't know their own age but, I moved back to DC from Philly in '04 and I'm pretty sure it was open then.