Design deliberations

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Anyone interested in taking part in weekly design and development meetings for the StudyPlace project is welcome. Starting January 18, 2007, we meet from 3:00 to 5:00 on Thursdays, in 322B Thompson Hall at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Users are encouraged to post and participate in upcoming events.

Contents 1 Current Considerations on site architecture 2 Current development timing 3 Design challenges: The focus and efficiency of the top page 4 Design challenges: Testing the production metaphors 5 Design challenges: Greeting users with exemplary content 6 Design challenges: Increasing the density of internal links 7 Archived pages

[edit] Current Considerations on site architecture

• Currently, key StudyPlace pages make heavy use of tables coded in a trial and error, which works (more or less) but will prove burdensome to maintain and extend if we do not get a better understanding of how MediaWiki makes use of CSS and other resources of good web design.
  • For our weekly meetings, let's devote the first 40 minutes or so to design and systems issues and the last 80 minutes or so to substantive initiatives.
  • A very useful resource as background for discussing design issues for a project such as StudyPlace is Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst Robbins (3rd edition, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2006). This is available online for those with a Columbia UNI.
    • At our February 1st meeting, lets discuss any questions or observations that arise on reading the first 3 chapters of Web Design in a Nutshell, which deal with basics of web standards, browsers, and displays.
• What sort of feedback do we get from new users as a result of publicizing the site? Let's track who makes some edits each day. Does the number of different users making edits per week grow?
• Can we fill out the structure of context and article pages for the stubs that have been started?

[edit] Current development timing

[edit] Design challenges: The focus and efficiency of the top page

[edit] Design challenges: Testing the production metaphors

[edit] Design challenges: Greeting users with exemplary content

[edit] Design challenges: Increasing the density of internal links

[edit] Archived pages

Design deliberations-11/20/2006