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Kansas Nebraska Good News Broadcasting Corporation - AKA KNGN Radio AM 1360 Assessment

This website assessment is for Kansas Nebraska Good News Broadcasting Corporation site at http://www.kngn.org/. It was completed by Luthernet Website Services in order to help those who run the program see what can be done to spread their message more efficiently.

Framework
This seems to be a asp.net website, meaning it's not fun to work with unless you are a asp.net person. It seems to have a base pages with pop-ups used so that the radio connection can work when navigating the website. That's a unique solution, and it probably works decently to some extent, even with the super long scrolling of nothingness at the bottom. 

Mobile-Friendly
KNGN.org is not mobile-friendly. That's probably a big problem since so many people might want to listen to the program on a handheld device. Here's what Google says about the website:
  • Clickable elements too close together 
  • Viewport not set 
  • Text too small to read 
  • Content wider than screen
Navigating with a mobile device is as close to impossible as it gets with this website, since all the links are so tiny, and then you have to click them twice in order to see a tiny pop-up. A reminder to web designers: small is not the same as mobile-friendly. Just because this website does not spill all over the page does not make it better on a phone. Link to Google test results.


Other Issues
I can't be sure all the little pop-up information is searchable or indexed by Google, which means all that content might be wasted and very little is seen by search engines. In fact, when you do a "site:http://www.kngn.org/" search, half of the results are "untitled document." That's how Google sees it. And that's kind of the experience for mobile users.

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