[Bioc-devel] support site

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<lianoglou.steve at gene.com> wrote:
> About the usability/clutter/UI -- IMHO, I think the bioconductor
> logo/banner is a bit too big and moving all of "the stuff" that's to
> the right of it "so far to the right" might be contributing to some of
> the disorientation (at least, I feel that it does to me). Perhaps
> moving the logo all the way to the right side of the top level buttons
> (and making it smaller) might be something to try.

Yup, moving it to the right as is makes it more appealing.  See
attached screenshot (just added style="float: right" to the logo div).

I also added a screenshot where the "personal banner" was moved (moved
its div by cut'n'pasting) to the very top such that "LATEST | OPEN |
INSTALL | ..." just appears closer to the actual list of topics.

Just protoypes (for the "large" Bootstrap style)

/Henrik

>
> @kasper: with regards to your "custom signature" question (question 2
> in your post), do you mean like the signatures people put at the
> bottom of an email?
>
> IMHO, I don't think signatures actually have a place on these boards,
> and it's better to just let your user page be the place where people
> go to be informed of the things you'd put in your signature.
>
> -steve
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>> No wonder I couldn't see all these things people were mentioning (I turn my
>> monitor sideways). One problem is that the "mobile" version does not offer
>> a button for up-voting, nor are any votes shown. That's sort of an
>> important feature, right?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback. I'm a little puzzled by the 'Messages' being
>>> somehow disproportionately large and wonder whether that's a
>>> browser-specific thing. I also find things a little noisy.
>>>
>>> Here's a cheap fix -- narrow your browser window. The site will go into
>>> 'mobile' mode, with nice clean presentation.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/26/2014 01:24 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 0. Overall, the new site is great. Some of the threads now turn into
>>>> valuable little mini-blogs or discussion pages on a specialized topic.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I tend to agree with Kasper. The site layout looks a bit too cluttered
>>>> to me, with all these boxes of votes, views and response counts in
>>>> different colours, breathless reporting of recent locations, bold face
>>>> subject headers and what not. Of course, these things are a matter of
>>>> taste, although I am sure there also now lots of people who approach this
>>>> topic scientifically and rationally.
>>>>
>>>> 2. I agree that "LATEST" and "OPEN" could be more prominent (and
>>>> "Messages" less so). It took me a great while to discover them (cf. point
>>>> 1.)
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes
>>>>         Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno 26 Sep 2014, alle ore 20:35, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
>>>> kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>  1. When you click "new post" I think there should be some mention that if
>>>>> you report an issue with a specific package, you should tag the post with
>>>>> package name.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Is there a way to have default signature?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Is there some way to modify the layout.  I am getting confused by all
>>>>> the colors and text and stuff.  I really want to see the title of the
>>>>> posts
>>>>> much more clearly.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. It was not immediately clear to me that the big "Messages" really are
>>>>> private messages and that I should click on "LATEST" or "OPEN" (which
>>>>> appear smaller than messages in my browser) to see the forum.  In fact,
>>>>> there seems to be three buttons which are critical to the new user (like
>>>>> me) and they are "LATEST", (perhaps) "OPEN" and "New Post".  Everything
>>>>> else should be made smaller and less in your face, I think.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Kasper
>>>>>
>>>>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>>>
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> Steve Lianoglou
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