02.07.08

Home page updates

Posted in WSO, website at 5:15 pm by Ben

So now that the new home page has been out a few days, things seem to be quieting down. We’re slowly adding or tweaking features on the page in response to people’s opinions.

New today:

  • a little more color (purple section headings. Not much, I know)
  • “helpful” links, clustered at the bottom of the page.

Originally, getting the links off was a first-class goal of the design, but it looks like putting the links at the bottom seems to fit into the scheme of the rest of the page without introduce too much more clutter. The top of the page represents links to commonly used extra-WSO services, followed by WSO services. The middle is recent content, and the bottom is the mass of links to useful but hard to find pages. Putting the links in a block instead of a sidebar also means that

  1. we don’t sacrifice any width in the layout.
  2. you can see them all at the same time. No more scrolling up and down trying to find the right category and then the right link. You can do all that with your eyes.

To do:

  1. Icons for services.
  2. alternate color scheme (user chooses)?

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