refreshed website soft launched

[Allison Bloodworth]

I have to agree with Anastasia that the font is a bit small. (I'd  
probably even make the font on the top-nav bigger.)

A few options I can think of:  increase the font size and 1) reduce  
the whitespace between the "post-its" at the top and the icons below  
them, 2) consolidate the 2 paragraphs about Fluid into one shorter  
paragraph, or 3) do a bit of both. I'd vote for #3. I like mission  
message on home pages to be as short as possible as people often  
aren't there to do a lot of reading--they usually want a quick intro  
and then be able to find what they need. We could make it easy for  
folks to get more info on Fluid by putting a "more" link below it  
(similar to what is on the news feed) that links to "About Us."

Additionally, I'd suggest making all the "More" links a bit more  
prominent...some options include using some more whitespace, bolding  
the link, using the ">>" character instead, and/or putting the link  
below the text. Drupal.org does all these things: http://drupal.org/.

Cheers,
Allison

On Feb 25, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Jess Mitchell wrote:

> The link we need, for sure!
>
> The font size is smaller than it was on the old site, but we did  
> that intentionally to keep from too much scrolling and the effect  
> the other site gave.  For a reminder, have a look here:  http://fluidproject.org/blog/
> My vote would be to keep the text small, but we can certainly  
> entertain how small.
>
> We also need to address the blog...
> I am tempted to put more than just release announcements on the  
> news.  For example, I'd love to reproduce the short blurb here http://www.jasig.org/ 
>  and the longer text here http://www.jasig.org/fluid-uportal-collaboration-20 
>  on our news feed.
>
> What do folks think?
>
> It also brings up the blog -- I'm thinking it should be on the Get  
> Involved page -- we don't have a link to it on the new site at all.
>
> Best,
> Jess
>
>
>
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>
>
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
>
>>
>> I just noticed that there is NO link to the Design Handbook  
>> anywhere on the new website!!
>>
>> There is a page about the Handbook:
>>    http://fluidproject.org/index.php/fluid-design-handbook
>> but nothing on that page actually links to the wiki page,
>>        http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Design+Handbook
>>
>> The Products page
>>    http://fluidproject.org/index.php/products
>> includes links to parts of the Handbook, but nothing to the actual  
>> Homepage of the handbook on the wiki!
>>
>>
>> (and I will again request that the font size be made a bit bigger?  
>> You're killing my aging eyes, here!)
>>
>> -- 
>> 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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Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu




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