Newspaper home page layout suggestion
Again, my eyes are not so good, so layout issues are important to me. Like others, the color scheme makes it difficult to find scroll bars, arrows, and other window features.
I also think the home page is a bit difficult to follow. Here are my suggestions with a crude "mock-up" of what I am asking for.
First, each box alternate from white to some shaded color. That way each items is easier to discern, one from the other. Note the lightly green shaded areas on my attached image.
Second, when I rollover the article, could it highlight that entire article box? Right now, the text that read, "more" highlights on rollover, but a highlight for the entire article box would make it visually more accessible. Note the slightly brighter shaded area that illustrates what happens when the mouse "rolls over" a specific article.
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It would be nice if when you click more it opens it in the page rather than bouncing out to the web browser too. I assume that if it is pulling RSS feeds, that the full article is there anyway. If not, I'm sure this would be quite straight forward.
Also, I've opened the app twice now - it would be nice if the homepage only shows what has changed since last time you opened the app (along with maybe 2-3 resources highlighted from your library.
Regarding the resource summaries - it would be nice if these could be linked to something we were recently studying or something. This would help us discover new resources that we don't know we have (for those of us with a few thousand books, this would be really nice).
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Joe Miller said:
Again, my eyes are not so good, so layout issues are important to me. Like others, the color scheme makes it difficult to find scroll bars, arrows, and other window features.
I also think the home page is a bit difficult to follow. Here are my suggestions with a crude "mock-up" of what I am asking for.
First, each box alternate from white to some shaded color. That way each items is easier to discern, one from the other. Note the lightly green shaded areas on my attached image.
Second, when I rollover the article, could it highlight that entire article box? Right now, the text that read, "more" highlights on rollover, but a highlight for the entire article box would make it visually more accessible. Note the slightly brighter shaded area that illustrates what happens when the mouse "rolls over" a specific article.
I was starting to write a post on this and notice this in related posts so will add to this post instead. I like what you have suggested here and would like to see some improvements along these lines. I would really like to give this a go as I think the concept is good but at the moment it is visually too much on my eyes.
Philip S. has suggested a softer home page approach here and I would like to see a button on that page that allows you to open up the newspaper in floating wiindow. In the floating window on the LHS. I think part of the problem I have with it visually is that it is full screen width and too much information at once. In the floating window I could then click on the more link to open up the resource on the RHS and continue reading it if it interests me.
Sorry Bob but I would also like to see what is displayed there be customizable. I thinking in keeping with the Logos 4 approach the best way would be a place where i can enter a query like the ones we use to build collections. For instance I might only want to see journal articles in the newspaper or I might be currently studyiny the book of Luke and only want to see commentaries on Luke... this would give me an alternative way into study in additon to the passge guide, to complement it if you like. The other way I can think of that it mght be customizable usng the Logos 4.0 way is resource tagging. This would give the flexibility to allow me to tag x numbers of books as ToBeRead or ReadingList or whatever moninker I choose. I could then use the newspaper as a way into books I want to read, as a reading guide if you like.
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AndrewMckenzie said:Joe Miller said:
Again, my eyes are not so good, so layout issues are important to me. Like others, the color scheme makes it difficult to find scroll bars, arrows, and other window features.
I also think the home page is a bit difficult to follow. Here are my suggestions with a crude "mock-up" of what I am asking for.
First, each box alternate from white to some shaded color. That way each items is easier to discern, one from the other. Note the lightly green shaded areas on my attached image.
Second, when I rollover the article, could it highlight that entire article box? Right now, the text that read, "more" highlights on rollover, but a highlight for the entire article box would make it visually more accessible. Note the slightly brighter shaded area that illustrates what happens when the mouse "rolls over" a specific article.
I was starting to write a post on this and notice this in related posts so will add to this post instead. I like what you have suggested here and would like to see some improvements along these lines. I would really like to give this a go as I think the concept is good but at the moment it is visually too much on my eyes.
Philip S. has suggested a softer home page approach here and I would like to see a button on that page that allows you to open up the newspaper in floating wiindow. In the floating window on the LHS. I think part of the problem I have with it visually is that it is full screen width and too much information at once. In the floating window I could then click on the more link to open up the resource on the RHS and continue reading it if it interests me.
Sorry Bob but I would also like to see what is displayed there be customizable. I thinking in keeping with the Logos 4 approach the best way would be a place where i can enter a query like the ones we use to build collections. For instance I might only want to see journal articles in the newspaper or I might be currently studyiny the book of Luke and only want to see commentaries on Luke... this would give me an alternative way into study in additon to the passge guide, to complement it if you like. The other way I can think of that it mght be customizable usng the Logos 4.0 way is resource tagging. This would give the flexibility to allow me to tag x numbers of books as ToBeRead or ReadingList or whatever moninker I choose. I could then use the newspaper as a way into books I want to read, as a reading guide if you like.
Bob if you dont' like the Philips idea of the home page (I hope you do) then please consider this customization of outside of that idea. Thank you.
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In addition, to make the type size customizeable... I can read 12 pt... my mother is leagally blind but still reads on the computer... at 24 pt... if I saw the page open at 24 pt, I would think something were wrong, but she would not.... in V3 I don't open to the home page very often, but it allows for some customization... it would be good to add the customizable content for the options of what is to be included at least to an extent,as well as the type size and maybe even a font style for those who have a problem reading certain font styles... just a thought.
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