Posted on 17 Jan 2015 00:36 by Mickey von Dassow
Pages were changed over 01/27/2015, but I'd still love to hear comments and suggestions!
And thank you to those who contacted me via email and/or on Facebook.
Please note that the text of the original blog post announcing the page changes has been deleted so that there won't be dead links to old drafts.
The changed pages are the front page, and the navigation/listing pages for Projects, Sparks, and Articles. I also added an FAQs page, and modified the about page. The approach to listing is a bit different for Articles, Sparks, and Projects. I haven't yet implemented ratings for Sparks, and I haven't started tagging them by field. There aren't enough articles yet to categorize by field. Comments on what works or doesn't work with these pages would be very helpful, as would suggestions for other improvements.
Thanks for your feedback!
—Mickey
While working on this, I discovered some features (watching) were not working as expected. So I've changed the "tips" to reflect that, and made all editing/file management go through the tabs at the top of the page (visible in "Articles", "Projects", and "Sparks" categories).
Page watching should now be fixed. Wikidot members who are logged in should now see options at the bottom right of IGoR pages to start/stop watching individual IGoR pages, categories of pages, or the whole IGoR site.
Watching can be useful: if you create or edit a page and want to know if people make changes or comments to it, you can turn on watching for that page in order to get a message about changes/comments on your Wikidot account's "activity" page. If you like, you can also adjust settings under "MyAccount" to receive emails about changes (you probably won't want to do that if you've got watching turned on for the whole site).
The new pages look great: much cleaner and easier to read. The tips are very well thought out (I still like "FAQ" better than "Tips").
The only thing I would change is to add the "IGoR will help" section back onto the front page. Maybe just above "Learn more"? I think the pages could also benefit from a little more visual interest (pictures? fonts?), but I don't have any good suggestions right now. It probably doesn't need to be a priority, though.