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Appropedia:User experience
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User experience, sometimes called UX, is important to make Appropedia a usable and enjoyable site for visitors.
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[edit] Web ring
[edit] In principle...
In conversations with Peter Campbell, we've discussed having a web ring for relevant green/dev sites - especially wikis, but possibly other useful and/or collaborative websites as well. Chief contenders:
- Greenlivingpedia:
- Envirowiki:
- Howtopedia:
- The relevant Wikia sites
The important questions are:
- Is this adding value for users?
- Are they providing similar links back to us?
[edit] Implementation
- A template on the main page, at the bottom. Simple, quick to do.
- en.battlestarwiki.org has a row of links to related sites as part of the skin, at the top of every page.
[edit] Url bar buttons
The recent changes feed is not much use except to the hardest of hardcore wiki geeks, so AboutUs puts their blog feed in their header: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AboutUsWikiWeblog" /> We can do this for our blog, but it would be even cooler if we had a community wiki blog (like the Estigmergia wlog).
The Universal Edit Button also goes in the url bar.
[edit] Information architecture
- Main article: Appropedia:Information architecture.
Some aspects of IA (Information Architecture) are hard to separate out from UX, especially:
- Left navbar links - do an initial carding exercise ASAP? (With students? When giving a talk?)
- The Topic categories issue.
[edit] Subcommittee members
Please sign up if you want to stay involved. This will help other members stay in contact with you.
Add your email details if you wish (use {{email}}, e.g. {{email|alexsmith|greenmail|org}}).
This is an Appropedia subcommittee. That is, a site collaborations which the Appropedia Foundation's board of directors has identified as important, and where one person has been identified as the "lead," to keep the board informed of progress.
[edit] See also
- Appropedia:Landing pages
- {{Makeover}} - use where help is needed from a Wikifairy, to make things pretty and/or user-friendly.
