refreshed website soft launched

[Allison Bloodworth]

I see we've added a link to the design handbook to this page: http://fluidproject.org/index.php/fluid-design-handbook 
, but it's a little lost among the other larger links (e.g. Persona  
Library) which are headers. What about also making the "Fluid Design  
Handbook" header on this page a link?

Conversely, I think it would be helpful to make Personas, UX  
Walkthroughs, etc. links on this page: http://fluidproject.org/index.php/products 
.

One final thought about keeping the icons above the fold. If the News  
will often be longer than the short announcement we see on the home  
page now, we may want to consider either a) making into more of a  
right sidebar, as news is often presented or b) just using titles for  
the news items with "More" links. If the News section is much longer  
than the "Fluid is" section, the page will look unbalanced. A somewhat  
more radical idea would be to move the icons to the top of the page,  
right under the top nav. But I think it may be confusing to have two  
major navigational methods right next to each other.

One final comment I'd forgotten to make before about the "Fluid is"  
section on the home page. I think it would be clearer that the header  
leads into the text below if we had the paragraph below it begin with  
"...", e.g. "...that builds user interfaces."

Nice work everyone!
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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