Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Federated States of Micronesia

I was working through the Nova site in order to send my transcripts to a potential employer and I got hit by the Federated States of Micronesia.  What does this mean?  If you live in Florida you know.  On a state pull down menu for a web form, when you press the letter F, the form defaults to Federated States of Micronesia.

Nova's main campus resides in Florida, and the Federated States of Micronesia don't constitute a state.  Not only that, but the country is spelled incorrectly.  I'd be curious how many more students are from Florida rather than the Federated States of Micronesia.  Here is an example:


Not much later, I needed to make a payment to NSU.  The user experience is not uniform and in this case the Federated States of Micronesia was not present:


The possible solution is to make territories a separate menu, or possibly move areas such as Guam and FSoM to a separate area of the menu.

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