Thanks for the feedback, Anastasia! Great suggestions.
We've worked through some of the formatting issues you've pointed out.
I agree with you about the header and the start of the content being
in one sentence. We'll continue tweaking!
Looking forward to more feedback,
Erin
On 23-Feb-09, at 9:52 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
On 21-Feb-09, at 12:26 AM, Jess Mitchell wrote:
we "soft launched" the Fluid website today... and we want feedback.
Wow! This looks fabulous! Laurel, Jacob and Erin: Wonderful work,
and stupendous effort! I know there was quite a push at the end to
get it out, and it looks to me like it was worth the effort!
General comments:
I like the side tabs as a way of handling those pages that would
have been too busy. I wonder if the text in the tabs is a bit large,
relative to the text size in the top links? (The side tabs are
bigger than the top tabs, which seems odd to me, since they're
second-level navigation.) Also, at first, I thought the fact that
the active tab was wider than the other tabs was a bug, but after
clicking, I see that it's intentional.
Text size: I find the font size used for body text to be quite small
on my 1680x1050 monitor (especially relative to the header size). I
imagine it will look just fine on my 1024x768 laptop at home, so I'm
not sure what a solution might be, but I just thought I'd mention
it, since you asked for feedback :-)
Downloads page:
I love the table showing the component status, and the direct links
to JIRAs in the Known Issues section. Good ideas, whoever came up
with them!
Project pages:
Both the Fluid Academic page and the Fluid Engage page seem to use
the header as the beginning of the first sentence, and then the
actual first sentence starts with "is ..." I'm not fond of this
approach, maybe because of the aforementioned difference in size
between the headers and the text. Mentally, I do NOT make the
required connection between the header and the text, so what I see
is just a sentence with no beginning. Just my two cents worth... I'm
happy to change this, if the powers that be agree.
Partners pages:
This is probably already on the list, but: The CollectionSpace and
Opencast partners pages have nothing but the project link, and a
links with the text "Link to XX Partners." It looks unfinished. (I'm
guessing that's because it *is* unfinished :-)
Stress Testing:
I tried clicking every link, just to make sure they all basically
worked, and found one small bug that was so easy to fix that I just
went ahead and fixed it: The "The Fluid Community" link at the
beginning of the "About Us -> Our Mission" page was linking to http://fluidproject.org/index.php/partners
, which isn't a valid page. I guessed, and changed it to http://fluidproject.org/index.php/fluid-academic-partners
. I hope it's ok that I made this change.
--
Anastasia Cheetham [email protected]
Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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