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

[Barry Canton]

One option would be to fold Labs and Groups into one button and then put
Protocols back into the fourth button spot.  That would help maintain a
balance between content and "social networking" type features.
Barry

On Jan 22, 2008 10:31 AM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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Barry Canton
Endy Lab
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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