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| [[Image:Appropedia new skin screenshot draft 3C.jpg|thumb|250px|Draft skin]]
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| This page is for discussion and collaboration on improving the user experience (UX) on Appropedia. This includes look and feel, and navigability.
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| Appropedia is working on a new skin. See:
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| * Drafts of what the new skins might look like - see image on right, and [http://webfilehosting.com/WJYBO883FE1H/appropedia_draft3C.psd the Photoshop file] (you'll have to close the casino ads - please pardon these, and let us know on the {{talk page}} if you know a better free file host for large files).
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| * [[Main Page tests]]
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| | == New skin == |
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| == Comments and suggestions ==
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| * Think about which links we want to make prominent. E.g. making "edit" very prominent may help emphasize the reader's ability to edit and escourage people to take that step. (Note how prominent it is at [[AboutUs:|AboutUs]].)--[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] · <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 04:the 02, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
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| * Green is a very common color, esp on sustainability-oriented sites. Could we use a textured brown, something like the current background? For narrow strips of color, we could experiment with a finer texture. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] <small>([[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]])</small> 20:53, 29 March 2008 (PDT)
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| **Then again, Tressie's new logos are very nice, with a blue-green thing happening that could give us a good choice of colors. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 20:31, 3 June 2008 (PDT)
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| * Serif fonts? --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 20:31, 3 June 2008 (PDT)
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| === Rotating image-links ===
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| Near the top right of the fan wiki [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ en.battlestarwiki.org] is an image (usually of a character) which links to the relevant wiki article. The image changes periodically (and the link and link text along with it), or when following a link or doing a hard refresh. This could be good for us - rotating through featured projects and other featured pages. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 07:42, 17 April 2008 (PDT)
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| :I notice they don't have a logo at the top left the way most MediaWiki sites do, so this is probably the site logo, moved and somehow made to alternate. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 20:38, 3 June 2008 (PDT)
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| === Web ring === | | === Web ring === |
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See Appropedia:User experience/New skin
Web ring
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:
The important questions are:
- Is this adding value for users?
- Are they providing similar links back to us?
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.
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.
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