[OWW-SC] New icons for OWW Feedback and Lab Notebook

[Jason Kelly]

I took a look at the google analytics on the main page (attached).
There were a fair number of clicks on the protocols link, but
unfortunately it doesn't distinguish between those that were on the
tool bar and those that were on the main page.

I'm kind of against removing the protocols button on the main page,
personally.  someone new to the site (e.g. the people I think the main
page is targeted to)  might not notice the small links on the left
hand side.  same goes for help and about us, which I think should be
featured prominently.  resources could probably go.

thanks,
jason

On Jan 22, 2008 10:01 AM, Reshma Shetty <rshetty at mit.edu> wrote:
> I went ahead and implemented these changes.  I'm not 100% sure it is a good
> idea because Protocols are pretty heavily used on the site so having a
> prominent button can be useful.  This button bar isn't just on the main page
> but also shows up on several other pages.  But we'll give it a shot.
>
> Let me know what folks think.  We can always roll back the change.
>
> -Reshma
>
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 11:24 AM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu > wrote:
> >
> >    While we're on redundancy, the About Us link is present three
> >    times, and the Help and Protocols links are present twice on the
> >    main page. It seems the Resources button should go into the
> >    sidebar with the other resources. It's unclear why Protocols is a
> >    button but Materials isn't. I think it would be easy to make that
> >    bar into a single line of buttons and remove the duplicates and
> >    move some into the sidebar. Perhaps a bar with just Labs, Courses,
> >    Groups, and Blogs.
> >
> >
> > > I was thinking the same thing.  Everything on it is either a button, in
> the
> > > blog already or has been a news highlight for a while.  Plus, this at
> least
> > > slightly decreases the size of the main page.
> > >
> > > So I just went ahead and removed the news highlights.  New highlights
> can be
> > > posted to the blog in the future.
> > >
> > > -Reshma
> > >
> > > On Jan 21, 2008 11:11 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Good idea. That gets rid of the redundant use of 'news' on the front
> page
> > >> as well. It makes the top buttons unambiguous. We should move the
> contents
> > >> of the new highlights into the blog and flip the switch.
> > >>
> > >> So are we going to do it?
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
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