refreshed website soft launched

[Erin Yu]

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                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>
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