[Fwd: Re: refreshed website soft launched]
Laurel A. Williams
laurel.williams at utoronto.ca
Wed Feb 25 16:44:16 UTC 2009
Hi Michelle,
I've updated the link on
http://fluidproject.org/index.php/open-cast-partners to go to the
Matterhorn partners page. If there are other alterations (RSS, change of
logo, text?) as suggested below, let me know!
Laurel
Jess Mitchell wrote:
> Michelle,
>
> Great to have you here -- and thanks a bunch for your feedback! We
> are indeed still working out the details (under the hood and up top
> too) on the website and the items you bring up are certainly on the
> list -- thanks!
>
> We'll get the Matterhorn partners page link in place. Should we use a
> different logo too?
> And wrt populating the page -- bring it -- we'd love to have an RSS
> feed to pop in there!
>
> Best,
> Jess
>
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> On Feb 23, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Michelle Ziegmann wrote:
>
>> Dear Fluid team,
>>
>> Hello - I'm new to the list, crossing over from the Opencast website.
>> I wanted to comment that the new Fluid site looks great! A very
>> inspiring look and organization. I did want to bring to your
>> attention the way this renders in an iPhone browser though (image
>> attached). Minor CSS issues I think, and not sure if that's a
>> priority for you, but wanted to make sure you were aware.
>>
>> I'm also wondering where is the best place for you to link to the
>> "Opencast partners". Recently, we've been trying to make some
>> distinctions on the site between Opencast Community and the Opencast
>> Matterhorn Project (the build project). The page you currently link
>> to lists all community members (anyone who submitted a profile of
>> their organization, anyway). Not all of these organizations are
>> "partners" in the build project. I don't know if this distinction is
>> important to you, or if it's your intention to focus on your
>> membership as part of the larger community. But I wanted to let you
>> know that we do have a separate page available that lists the
>> Matterhorn Partners
>> (http://www.opencastproject.org/project/matterhorn_partners).
>>
>> Also, as the Opencast site administrator, I also wonder if there's a
>> way I can help populate the Opencast page in Fluid. Would an RSS
>> feed of the partner organizations be helpful?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michelle Ziegmann
>> UC Berkeley
>> Educational Technology Services
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: refreshed website soft launched
>> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:38:21 -0500
>> From: Anastasia Cheetham <a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> <mailto:a.cheetham at utoronto.ca>>
>> To: Fluid Work <fluid-work at fluidproject.org
>> <mailto:fluid-work at fluidproject.org>>
>> CC: Jacob Farber <jacob.farber at utoronto.ca
>> <mailto:jacob.farber at utoronto.ca>>
>> References: <FAD2A69E-21CB-4082-8E09-9D06A04ADB2C at jessmitchell.com
>> <mailto:FAD2A69E-21CB-4082-8E09-9D06A04ADB2C at jessmitchell.com>>
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>> <mailto:EA4B7047-E41B-404C-9F29-D82E190B3E60 at utoronto.ca>>
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>> <mailto:0EE66B63-A207-455B-BACA-EE2F61B64EFD at utoronto.ca>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 23-Feb-09, at 3:23 PM, Erin Yu wrote:
>>
>>> Looking forward to more feedback,
>>
>> You asked for it... :-)
>>
>>
>> On the "About Us" page (at least on my monitor), the "Out Mission"
>> has enough information to require a scroll bar on the page, and
>> "Contact Us" does not. In this case, switching back and forth
>> between these two tabs causes the central block of info to shift to
>> the left and right according to whether or not the scroll bar is
>> present. This is a wee bit disconcerting.
>>
>> On the "Partners" page, the "Fluid Academic" and "Opencast" tabs have
>> a similar presence/absence of a scrollbar, but the disconcerting
>> shifting doesn't happen.
>>
>> If you could find out what's different between the styles on the two
>> pages, and modify the "Our Mission" pages to eliminate the shifting,
>> that would be nice.
>>
>> --
>> Anastasia Cheetham a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> <mailto:a.cheetham at utoronto.ca>
>> Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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