On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:50:31AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > The new style sheet for ASLO reminds me that something has bugged me > about the design of the site from the beginning. The site does not do a > good job of showing just how much is available. When you click on a > category you see entries for three or four Activities, seemingly picked > at random, and no indication that these Activities are not the only ones > available in the category. Yes, there is a link to show everything in > the category. It's not that you can't find anything if you really want > to. It's that the site doesn't do a good job of selling what it has. > > What I would suggest is to put totals for each category in a prominent > place on the page. When you first come into the site and no category is > selected you should see something like "500 Great Activities > Available!" Choose a category like Documents and the line would read > "10 Activities In This Category."
In my mind we can do something similar w/o patching upstream code much, now ASLO does this: * on the main page it shows 5(6) featured activities in "We Recommended" and 3 others in below list * in category list it shows "We Recommended"(if there are recommended activities in this category) and random list of 3 other activities in this category So, we can just increase amount of activities from 3 to 10(or so) http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/947 and instead of random list show list of featured activities http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/948 > The other thing that has bugged me is the Recommended Activities. We > need to put more thought into what gets recommended. Currently one of > the Activities that is recommended is Read. Now an XO owner or SoaS > user already has Read, so why recommend it? Is there some reason I > should remove the Read I already have and install this one? > > Recommended Activities should promote Sugar. They should meet the > following criteria: > > 1). Fairly robust. > 2). Not included by default with anything. > 3). Should do something interesting. Think of the iPhone commercials > that show all the apps that are available. Why not recommend something > like Food Force or Story Builder? You are an editor now and can do the best on http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/editors/featured ;) And after fixing #948 all featured activities will appear on main page and per category main pages. > I also question the category GCompris. I understand these Activities > are related to each other, but the relationship would not be meaningful > to a teacher or a student. fixed > > A little salesmanship could go a long way in making this site better. > > James Simmons > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
