Rebuilding Logos.com: Give Us Your Ideas

Now that things are settling down a bit with Logos 4, the marketing and web development teams are getting ready to tackle another big project: rebuilding Logos.com. We're not just going to give it a new look. We're going to rebuild it, improve the navigation, organization, browsing, searching, etc., and add some cool new functionality. You might say that it's going to be Logos.com reimagined.

I have about ten pages of notes and ideas of things we're considering, but since you're the ones that use the website the most, we want to hear your ideas for how to make Logos.com amazing.

What don't you like about Logos.com?
How can we improve it?
What new features should we add?

Feel free to point us to your favorite websites and mention some of the things you love about them.

We want to hear everything from the smallest little annoyance to your grandest dream. Of course, we can't promise that we'll be able to do it all, but your feedback will definitely help us as we prioritize what is most important.

By the way, for now we're talking primarily about the main www.logos.com website, not the forums, blog, wiki, or any of our others sites. Those will come later.

Thanks for your help!

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John Hapgood

Another thing I would like to see is better discriptions of resources. Looking at all the puritan resources discriptions you would think they are all the same. What is the DIFFERENCE between Owens, Baxter, Sibbes, Goodwin, etc might help a bit

Praiser

On the individual book information sales pages, if the book is part of a package show which ones they are included in. For example http://www.logos.com/products/details/2603 Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (8 Vols.) is included in the Platinum and Portfolio Collections.
Show on the individual book pages if the logged in viewer already has the item in their library.

For upgrading...show all the books that we have in our library not just the difference between the two packages. In other words if package A doesn't have a title that package B includes, but we have purchased it outside of package A, it is a resource that we already have (unless of course we can sell it, then it doesn't matter). This would allow us to see exactly how many new resources that we will actually be gaining.

Also in the upgrade section the "recommended add on products" should only show what we do not already have in our library. Current mine is showing several that I have already purchased.

It would also be nice to know an approximate guess (nothing to hold you to) as to when a prepub will actually be finished if it is in the "under development" stage. This would help alot.

Thanks for asking!

Praiser

On the PrePub pages make a sort available based on the price difference between the PrePub price and the MSRP. So we can see where the biggest PrePub discounts are hiding. Also making it evident which PrePubs we can wait to get till they actually become available for those where there isn't any difference between the PrePub price and the MSRP. Also an option for the discount percentage difference the PrePub price is from the Logos price. Doing just this will not let us filter out books where the MSRP and the Logos price and the PrePub price are the same all across the columns. As a PrePub fan, I would like to be able to see where the BIGGEST PrePub savings are! When something is tremendously discounted I am more likely to pick it up if I am even remotely interested in it. With all the PrePub additions that are at MSRP, it is getting very hard to really see the great deals and everyone is missing out.

Also enabling us to sort books (including PrePubs) by publisher would help.

Thanks!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/90260#Comment_90260

I know you're going to be tempted to make it graphical and heavy with flash and all that yuck.... don't. Make it light. Design it for information, not pizazz. If you start with an information focus rather than a pizazz focus you can add pizazz later. If you start with pizazz first you may never get the information in.

+1 [Y]

Yes, avoid having it be too full of whizzy flashy stuff that's there just for show and slows the thing down. For example, don't do it like this: http://evangelcathedral.net/welcome.htm ("come back each day for our daily manna" -- hmmm.... better have a fast Internet connection if you're going to do that, and wear your sunglasses to shield your eyes from all that glitz!)

Allen Browne

Suggestions:

Imagine who's visiting, and design for them.
Top of home page should include a description for people who know nothing about Logos.
It's no longer just 'Bible Software', so perhaps:
The best choice of Christian ebooks you can buy. For PC, Mac, or iPhone.
Value packages and individual titles for casual readers, Bible students, and academic researchers.
For pages on individual resources: ensure they call contain author/ed, publisher, year, and page count. (Most newer ones do.)
Search is crucial: you're building credibility if users can find relevant resources. (Keep it up: I can usually find what I want.)
Keep it simple & fast: Again, this is what your users want (as distinct from something like Glo.) Pre-pub is the page that's currently overloaded.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91246#Comment_91246

The Support page needs a little creative intervention. In particular "recent issues" needs to be populated with more of the difficult issues that have arisen.

Stephen Paynter

I am one of those fortunate logos users who currently has the right to an academic discount .... however, the academic price page leaves quite a lot to be desired.

First, it can be jolly hard to find ... if not impossible ... navigate around the Logos site how you will, or search on what you will, it doesn't "come-up"

Second, the names on the products are not links to the product description page - hence making an "oh, I wonder if I'm interested in that?" query a pain to answer.

Third, I'm never sure if there is supposed to be academic discounts on all resources that could be of academic interest .... or only on those listed on the page. There is no discussion of what is on the page in the forums, or on when anything new is added.

I think I would like to get at the academic prices in two ways ... one through a page very like the present one, only with links to the product pages; and second, a link from (or a line in the pricing box on) the product page itself.

Having said that .... the current set-up has worked well enough to succeed in parting me from a lot of my money .... so it can't be that bad!

Luuk Dondorp

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91089#Comment_91089

I know you're going to be tempted to make it graphical and heavy with flash and all that yuck.... don't. Make it light. Design it for information, not pizazz. If you start with an information focus rather than a pizazz focus you can add pizazz later. If you start with pizazz first you may never get the information in.

+1

Yes, avoid having it be too full of whizzy flashy stuff that's there just for show and slows the thing down. For example, don't do it like this: http://evangelcathedral.net/welcome.htm ("come back each day for our daily manna" -- hmmm.... better have a fast Internet connection if you're going to do that, and wear your sunglasses to shield your eyes from all that glitz!)

I AGREE ABSOLUTELY WITH THIS !! Make it as simple as can be for the front pages and the more shiny stuff behind it. Something like this: http://nos.nl (dutch, but that doesn't matter, just for the look of it)

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/90078#Comment_90078

I second, third, and fourth the various requests for making it easier to search and browse the resource catalog and making it easier to discover new resources that would interest me. There is no easy way to do this now. You basically have to go through the catalog item by item and research each book/set/collection on Google to find out what type of resource it is (theology, denomination, how technical it is [scholarly, "pastorly", "layperson-ly"], etc)

I made a thread about this in the suggestions forum...please check it out here:

http://community.logos.com/forums/t/10058.aspx

Jacob Hantla

All except #1 are in no particular order, just my brainstorming

My #1 recommendation is to have the website very integrated with the app. I would like to be able to buy books directly from L4, iPhone app, and any other versions that come. Sales would likely skyrocket if we could purchase them with a single click from the iPhone app or with a single click from the L4 app.
1. So add a tab to the Library search in L4 that would allow us to search all resources in existance.
2. Add a tab in search for L4 that would allow us to search all resources available (or all resources available for a certain type). The results would be generated by Logos and then fed to L4 to help us know what we should be purchasing.
Also, I would like the app to be able to intelligently know what I already own and allow me to filter out results that are already in my library.
Search within books. I would like to be able to perform Logos-like searches of all books available and then see where results might lie in books that I don't already own. I'd like to see the results with short excerpts of the section of the text where the search result is found. This would really guide me in purchasing new resources.
Integrate academic discounts into site for those who qualify for them. It is a waste of time and a waste of Logos' money to make us call in every time we want to order something with academic discount.
Wish list
Show which items are available for mobile viewing (iPhone, library.logos.com, etc). I would purchase some books for this express purpose.
Allow user reviews, publishable from both on the website and from within Logos4.
Suggest package deals where I could bundle a desired resource and get it for cheaper (This is currently done for some but not all resources on the website).
Allow gifting: Purchasing of a resource for somebody else's username. And allow purchasing for my username by people who don't own Logos. When people ask me what they should get me for Christmas, I would love to send them a customized link that would allow a purchase by anyone that would automatically unlock a resource in my library.
Gift certificates
Be able to exclude resources from all future searches. Also be able to exclude resources from prepub page that I don't want.
Allow us to help with text development (see http://community.logos.com/forums/t/11689.aspx)
Intelligently recommend resources based on those that we own and the time that we spend reading particular resources that we own.
Somehow make the logos.com homepage useful for current customers. I do not need to see an advertisement for Logos everytime I open logos.com. I'm already sold

That's all I got for now

Tes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/90237#Comment_90237

I would like to see greater scope given to How To: training videos/sections. Logos is a tremendous tool, but too many people who get involved with it don't know how to do systematic bible study using it. So ti becomes an extremely expensive concordance. Put together some instructional videos on:

Inductive Bible Study

Character Bible Study

Building a topical Bible study

Researching the history and cultural backgrounds of book of the bible

Proper understanding and usage of a Lectionary (this was to make up for my other comment M.J.)

Please ,these are very necessary.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91544#Comment_91544

7. Allow user reviews, publishable from both on the website and from within Logos4.

This made me think of another idea:

Collect (aggregate) data from people's star-ratings of resources (which you must have already on your servers because of the sync feature) and show the average star rating for each resource in the Products area of the website. Don't include ratings of zero stars in the average, because 99.9999% of the time it's just because people didn't rate it yet (I doubt anybody takes the time to go through their entire library assigning ratings to everything, leaving zero star ratings for only those items which they think are really bad). Make it clear that any items with zero stars on the website aren't necessarily that bad, it's just that nobody has given them a rating yet. (Maybe show the stars as greyed out in that case.)

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91544#Comment_91544

Intelligently recommend resources based on those that we own and the time that we spend reading particular resources that we own.

Also, combine the recommendation capability with the wishlist capability...intelligently recommending resources that I would potentially find interesting based on what is already on my wishlist.

Ken F Hill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/89996#Comment_89996

Many many more video tutorials

I would like to see the original date next to each video.

Michael Thebert

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92007#Comment_92007

Maybe have a forum section broken down to each book of the bible.

That way if I had a question from something I am working with I can ask live on the forum to anyone else on at the time.

Would be nice if the forum function tracked automatically where I was in the bible like the resourses do. so maybe not a strict website issue but a melding of Logos 4 and the forums with a function within Logos 4 to bring it up just like another resourse pane.

Search function would be very important so people aren't asking same questions so much.

Good forum moderators important so content stays on topic and reasonable.

This would bring life to bible study as the community can help each other live. People feel good about helping others.

Onell McCarthy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/90237#Comment_90237

Thank you well said

Fred T Daniel Jr

Don't know if this has been mentioned:

I would like an easy find that posts what the latest update to Logos 4 is/was. My curiosity drives me nuts when the icon tells me it is downloading an update, but not what it is.

Fred Daniel

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92267#Comment_92267

Don't know if this has been mentioned:

I would like an easy find that posts what the latest update to Logos 4 is/was. My curiosity drives me nuts when the icon tells me it is downloading an update, but not what it is.

Fred Daniel

They often (but not always) post the contents of these updates on the forums.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92274#Comment_92274

Don't know if this has been mentioned:

I would like an easy find that posts what the latest update to Logos 4 is/was. My curiosity drives me nuts when the icon tells me it is downloading an update, but not what it is.

Fred Daniel

They often (but not always) post the contents of these updates on the forums.

For the times that they do post the contents of the updates on the forum (which, as Jacob mentioned, isn't every single time), I've been collecting links to all those posts and putting them in a page on the wiki called Resource Update History: http://wiki.logos.com/Resource_Update_History. I might not get around to it right away though, so watching the forum for update announcements will be your quickest way of knowing what's new.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91544#Comment_91544

For me (as an existing customer), these are the priorities:

Make the site recognise I'm an existing user, and don't try and sell me Logos 4!
Improve the 'store'. I very much agree with Jacob, this should be integrated into Logos4 and Logos for iPhone, too. But the 'store' must, at a minimum:
1. Clearly show me which resources are in which package (perhaps a bullet point list at the bottom of the appropriate page).
2. Clearly show me which resources I already own (I'm envisioning a tick mark next to each item on the bullet point list).
3. Allow me to search by resource, not just by package. Let me search by metadata (author/title/publisher), etc., just like in a proper book site. When returning results, show me which package(s) would get me that resource, or how much it costs individually.
4. Show prices at academic rate if that is appropriate.
5. Allow me to use credit in my account without phoning Logos.
6. Add in standard features from other book stores: recommendations, reviews, etc.
Structure the support part of the site better:
1. Add proper tutorial videos, rather than just 1 or 2 minute clips. If nothing else, just pay MP to put his proper training videos up. The better Logos is supported, the more people will buy your software.
2. In support, focus on tasks, not just features. Answer "How do I...?" questions.
3. In support, offer a proper knowledgebase, which includes confirmed bugs and frequent problems. Not everyone uses the forum (nor should they).
In the forums:
1. Make search work.
2. Keep a record of which posts which have read in each thread so we can jump to the first unread post.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92317#Comment_92317

Just providing a link to another user's report about a typo on logos.com which he posted in General and I fear it's likely to get lost in the shuffle there:

http://community.logos.com/forums/t/11865.aspx

Roger Feenstra

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/90908#Comment_90908

don't be trendy and don't have a bunch of things moving and flashing and spinning trying to get your attention.

[Y]

Roger Feenstra

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/92317#Comment_92317

Make the site recognise I'm an existing user, and don't try and sell me Logos 4!

[Y][Y]

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/94100#Comment_94100

In the event of rapture, the site should cancel my pre-pubs/community pricing bids...

On the current site, now that there are so many resources/collections/etc, I simply can't find things easily. Once I get a list, it is long/unwieldy--I can't strain out irrelevant stuff/refine it. When I get to a resource, often Logos tells me so little about it I have to manually search the Internet to figure out it I would be buying amiss--the sample pages are mildly helpful except they often show parts of the book that I'd never read. When operating in "my account," I can't easily sort or tailor columns--and not being able to click through on a title is frustrating. It really bugs me that I can't click on an option to download all the latest Logos3 files for resources I own (i.e., post-computer crash). I've got so many CDs now I'd never manually re-assemble the full load on my own--I should have to geek-up and dig through an FTP site.

I don't get the nice discounts others seem to, but have invested a considerable sum in resources over the years--it would be nice to get a "customer appreciation" discount.

It is probably too much of a headache for your company, but it would be nice to be able to highlight resources that tailor to (or against) specific denominations.

The software collects/transmits a lot of intelligence about what I'm reading/doing/using to your servers; perhaps leverage that biz intel on what resources you pitch me when I log in. Similarly, perhaps aggregate my/other's "star ratings" for resources--it would be helpful to see which products enjoy more user kudos than others. User comments are also very helpful [sometimes, minus the invective ;-)] to get a feel for how the resource was helpful/fell short for others.

The big bundles (Zondervan comes to mind) wind up being spam-like to me; I don't like seeing the bundle and each title listed as peers...it is confusing. Group them/indent them or...better yet, hide the individual titles if I've marked the bundle for purchase.

I tend to look at your site daily these days...not clogging it with graphics would be a plus.

Looking forward to the future...

Mike T

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/91596#Comment_91596

How about a page for Logos User Groups? I don't know if any currently exist, but a a few of us are trying to start a user group in North Carolina. It is difficult / impossible to identify or contact Logos users in the area to let them know. If there were a page dedicated to user groups, then everyone would know how to locate / communicate with nearby user groups...

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/95791#Comment_95791

don't know if some of these are a repeat (skimmed thru this post, but it is long)

Allow each user to have a wishlist of resources they find that they may want to buy in the future. With the ability to signal Logos if they want to notified for each item if it goes on sale. It would also be nice if we could rate (1 to 5 stars) how much i wanted that resource.

Better L4 documented help (i.e. a wiki manual which tells how to use L4 with good graphics. Videos are nice, but sometimes i want to step through a tutorial step at a time and not fight with pause & rewind.

A cross-ref page for above mentioned help. In the case where i know what i want to do, but can't find it in your wiki tutorial.

A comment area on each help topic so that we could give you feedback when the way the help topic is not helping us.

Also a set of pages which have: Did you know (which would help develop us into power users of L4)

Add a chat session, so users could discuss topics real-time.

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/95018#Comment_95018

On the current site, now that there are so many resources/collections/etc, I simply can't find things easily. Once I get a list, it is long/unwieldy--I can't strain out irrelevant stuff/refine it.

[Y]

The software collects/transmits a lot of intelligence about what I'm reading/doing/using to your servers; perhaps leverage that biz intel on what resources you pitch me when I log in. Similarly, perhaps aggregate my/other's "star ratings" for resources--it would be helpful to see which products enjoy more user kudos than others. User comments are also very helpful [sometimes, minus the invective ;-)] to get a feel for how the resource was helpful/fell short for others.

[Y]

The big bundles (Zondervan comes to mind) wind up being spam-like to me; I don't like seeing the bundle and each title listed as peers...it is confusing. Group them/indent them or...better yet, hide the individual titles if I've marked the bundle for purchase.

[Y] Also, allowing us to hide resources that we know we won't want to purchase would help me sort through the incredible long prepub list.

Mark Smith

On the Product Categories page please include a section called Periodicals or Journals or Magazines.

Edwin Bowden

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/95982#Comment_95982

Reorganize the "new" book section similar to the new organization of pre-pubs (by release date, price, title, author, etc.).

Kolen Cheung

I will say that all the helps/product guides, etc. should be the first one to be updated according to the Logos4. I am new to Logos (so, Logos 4 is the first package I purchased.). But when I look at the guides, I was confused sometimes because it refers to a function that Logos 4 don't have. e.g. to set the priority of the search in dictionary (sth like keylink?) I would say that to me this is the most important thing before seeing any new functions. New functions is like a decoration, but the content is the most important. By the way, I suggest that the product guides should be renewed constantly to include the new products. e.g. the NIDNTT is not included in the product guide of the Greek but NIDOTT is included in the product guide of the Hebrew.

Another thing is to add the link to individual resources in the base package comparison, including the site in the Academic Program. By the way, I cannot link to the purchase link of the academic program. I get the link only from the staff in email. So, I would suggest to organize the structure so that links to pages can be more straight forward.

I think the training can be improved too. I just watched all the videos available in the website recently. And I found that something that is very basic is listed lower. So, after I go through something more difficult, actually I know that basic feature before. So, I suggest to sort the training videos and articles in an order. So, it will be great if the training is redecided so that it is like a continuation rather than a scattering around (learning this a bit and that a bit). Of course the training thing is tricky, because the manuals are not free (published by camplogos). I hope that something can be changed, though it is hard to ask you to give it for free, right?

Make sure that a link to the collection is put in all the individual titles. e.g. I found the Grammar from Wallace do not have the link of a Greek collection containing that.

Top 10 lists should be lengthen and expanded. Better to include some statistical data too. I am sorry to say that none of the things from "Add-on Libraries" and "Downloads" is interesting to me (I know it sounds like very non-professional, but I am really not. I am a layman only). I have considered BDAG/HALOT before but find it too technical for me. By the way, what "Add-on Libraries" and "Downloads" mean? I don't thing that it is very clear. When you put "Downloads", why don't you put "DVD-ROM"? I will suggest to organize it accord to commentaries, dictionaries, encyclopedia, history, etc. That is more helpful. By the way, Top 10 list can be misleading because some of the title are included in the base package. e.g. some of the commentaries might also be very popular but are not in the list only because it is in the base package already.

I like the P, S, L in the product guide on multi-volume commentaries. So, I suggest to add these symbols to all the product guides, Top 10 lists, and even all the products. It can be very helpful to roughly know what kind of product it is. e.g. I will never buy a product which has the S or L sign only. So, I think the point is to make a better classification on products to help us, layman, to decide which to buy. And I guess that most if not all of the items on the Top 10 lists now are for S only. So if you decided the lists into S, P and L, it would be helpful for all people. Since for layman like me, when I look at the Top 10 list, it is simply useless to me.

For the Academic program, it is not so easy to use now. I will suggest to put the price in the academic program directly to the product page. Currently, what I need to do is to find out what I am interested in the product page, and open the academic program website, and search for that title. It is so troublesome. I don't know if you are afraid that people might not be honest so that they will claim they are in the academia but they don't. Or you afraid that if it is so easily achievable then all people in the academia will use it and you will make lesser money. But I think if people want to cheat, they always have a method to. I believe that why Logos can survive and publishers are willing to publish books electronically is because we are Christians! If they really do that, well, let them do it. I doubt if they will really know God deeper in that way. And God is Judge. For the 2nd reason, well, all I can say is to hope that you can popularize the academic program so that more people in the academia can be benefited. You know, I am a poor student suffering from a lot of financial difficulties and thank God that I know that there is an academic program from a certain website (NOT Logos!) there is an academic program, before I purchase it. You know, the big discount last month only has 25% but the Academic Program has 30% off. 5% make a huge difference to poor student like me.

One thing that is not quite related. I would suggest you to publish printed copies on the Lexham Titles. It is SO helpful (at least to layman like me, which is the aim of Lexham: to bridge between original language and English speaking layman). e.g. for the HDNT, I would like to have a printed copy even I've have an electronic copy already.

Search on products should be improved too. Easier to find titles also means a higher profit. e.g. I try to search [psalm AND cited], but many pages shown do not have either one of the word. And a guide/help on search is helpful too. Though you might have the boolean operator, but I don't know how Logos assign it. Might be you can cooperate with Google. Google is really good at that (with no doubt).

Support and Training seems to have overlaps.

Thanks.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/96069#Comment_96069

Another thought: I'd like to be able to see the user-reported typos for a given resource (that haven't been fixed yet).

P.S. WRT my earlier wish that product search was up to par with the greatly expanded number of products, I was searching a day or two ago to see if Logos sold Charles Wesley's single-volume commentary (spurred on by a recommendation from AW Tozer in his The Warfare of the Spirit). I finally gave up...too many hits to wade through.

Michael G. Halpern

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/89989#Comment_89989

[Y] Great idea! I've wanted a "wish list" for some time now, but more for me to remember the purchases I would like to make without have to look everything up over and over again.

I also posted this recommendation today in the "General" section (probably should have put it in the "Suggestions" forum...oops!

"How can we get a "Customer Review" section added to the Logos.com Forums?

With so many new titles being published for Logos, it is dizzying trying to locate reader reviews and make prudent decisions on which books we add to our collections. I have seen numerous inquiries from forum participants requesting the opinions of others to help them decide on whether or not to add a new work to their library.

I would prefer to stay on Logos.com for my reviews. Not only does a site like Amazon.com have some very limited, or non existent reviews for many titles, we are encouraged to leave Logos.com for another web site...one that is not Christian in nature, thus providing potentially "mixed" reviews, if any. What do you all think?"

Stephen Paynter

One thing I am note sure we have at present is a web-page that gives a complete listing of every resource available for Logos. New Products suggests that it doesn't ,,, nor do the others. This would be a nice addition ... espcially if it could be organised in various ways, such as cheapest first, newest first, alphabetical, etc.

It would be nice to receive notification when resources are about to be withdrawn ... the opposite of pre-pubs, presumably with a premium being charged !

It would also be nice if Logos facilitated a market-place between Logos users for the exchange/selling of unwanted resources. This would be pure service to your customers, rather than any real benefit to Logos ... but that in itself would be a benefit to Logos in terms of good-will and appreciation.

Ken F Hill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/100388#Comment_100388

It would also be nice if Logos facilitated a market-place between Logos users for the exchange/selling of unwanted resources. This would be pure service to your customers, rather than any real benefit to Logos ... but that in itself would be a benefit to Logos in terms of good-will and appreciation.

It also might give people one more reason to habitually flock to the website, where there are plenty of links to new products, from which Logos would benefit. I'd probably check it out fairly regularly since each item offered for sale might have a fairly quick turn-around -- I wouldn't want to risk missing out on something useful and economical.

Jarred Edgecombe

OK, First I must confess that I didn't take time to read every reply, but as a student, I would like the list of books on the academic page to become searchable, here: www.logos.com/academic/discount/program/products/1

Aaron Knotts

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/89989#Comment_89989

Ability to have a wish list that could be a gift list. Way to easily purchase resources as gifts for others.

[Y] +1

...it's hard to do any searching to see what's available for me. It would be great if there was a lot smarter ability to offer suggestions to me based on what I really have...

...video tutorials, I would like to see them expand beyond just how to use a feature...to scenario-based tutorials. For example - take someone who is going to do a particular type of Bible study, to learn 'x', and then see how they use the tools of Logos to accomplish their task.

[Y] +1 If the logos.com website could perform a lookup on my L4 ranking and prioritisation it could then build suggested options for me to purchase based on my dis/likes.

I no longer have l3 on my machine, so when I purchase a title that does not have a download option, I need to call customer support with the key and have them add it to my account. *Please* put a place on logos.com where I can log in and enter the key so that the title will be unlocked on my account for l4.

[Y] +1 Adding the Lucado Lifeworks Library took me the better part of a day, as I had to reinstall L3, deal with the various errors, finding support articles to work round those errors etc. etc. For those of us outside the US (international call rates apply) John's suggestion would be outstanding!

...I would like to have a little check box or banner that let's me know if I already own a resource.

[Y] +1 I would like this to be the case any time I look at any unlocked resource on any given page or layout at logos.com To have an icon that superimposes the resource picture (just like a Windows shortcut has a little arrow over the icon for its .exe file), or to change the colour of the border around the resource picture, have its title in italics, any clues that I own it already will have me move right along to the next gem that I want to actually purchase.

Thanks so much for letting the users have input before the redesign. What a great company to be dealing with....even from New Zealand [:D]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/106144#Comment_106144

...I would like to have a little check box or banner that let's me know if I already own a resource.

+1 I would like this to be the case any time I look at any unlocked resource on any given page or layout at logos.com To have an icon that superimposes the resource picture (just like a Windows shortcut has a little arrow over the icon for its .exe file), or to change the colour of the border around the resource picture, have its title in italics, any clues that I own it already will have me move right along to the next gem that I want to actually purchase.

Yes, this should work for all resources just the way the pre-pubs pages already do:

8688.lion_pre-pub.swf

(Great series, by the way. And getting oh so close. Title is hyper-linked in the image above, so go check it out!)

Gene Britton

I have not read all the threads in this section and this may have been covered. It also may be something that I can adjust now and correct but I do want to mention. When I go to the home page I have my screen set on 125% so that I can better read. Some of your pages automatically fit the screen but others, including the home page do not and I have to shift over to see what is there.

This may just be a technical issue that is easy to resolve but if not please give it thought in new design.

Thanks Logos you help my ministry and walk with God!

Keith Brich

Add random factoids and quotes on the homepage similar to the homepage for the LOGOS software. I enjoy opening my homepage and just checking out the stuff like that.

Stein Dahl

For the new Logos website - I'd very much like to see:

A "preview" of several pages for every single book that is available for purchase on the Logos website. There should not be even one book that does not have a "preview". This way the customer can actually "know" what he's getting before he buys.
An easy way to tell if you already own a resource or not. If a customer is logged in, on the new Logos website, every book that the customer already owns should be grayed out (or something) to avoid purchasing the same resource a second time. There should be a very obvious way that a customer can tell (at a glance) whether or not he already owns a resource.

If I think of more enhancements I will revisit . . .

Bill Shewmaker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139500#Comment_139500

For the new Logos website - I'd very much like to see:

A "preview" of several pages for every single book that is available for purchase on the Logos website. There should not be even one book that does not have a "preview". This way the customer can actually "know" what he's getting before he buys.

An easy way to tell if you already own a resource or not. If a customer is logged in, on the new Logos website, every book that the customer already owns should be grayed out (or something) to avoid purchasing the same resource a second time. There should be a very obvious way that a customer can tell (at a glance) whether or not he already owns a resource.

If I think of more enhancements I will revisit . . .

Along with the preview, I would like to see a Table of Contents to see just what is covered in each chapter. Sometimes the preview lets me see if I like the author's style of writing, but tells me nothing of what they are actually covering in their tome. A TOC is needed in every preview. Thanks!

Ken F Hill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139548#Comment_139548

A "preview" of several pages for every single book that is available for purchase on the Logos website.

An easy way to tell if you already own a resource or not.

Along with the preview, I would like to see a Table of Contents

I agree with all of the above. On the preview, I would like to see a preview of some of the introductory pages but also some of the interior pages. That way you could get a feel both for (1) the author's philosophy and purpose in writing the book and also (2) how it is implemented in the main body of the book.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139583#Comment_139583

On the preview, I would like to see a preview of some of the introductory pages but also some of the interior pages. That way you could get a feel both for (1) the author's philosophy and purpose in writing the book and also (2) how it is implemented in the main body of the book.

Excellent idea. I've wished for this especially on reference works like dictionaries and encyclopedias. If you get only introductory pages on those you might see a preface, but that doesn't tell you anything about how detailed the actual entries in the dictionary are. I'd want to see a sample of the real guts of the book. Often I can find that by looking at the previews available on A----n.com but I'd prefer not to have to leave the Logos site when considering what to purchase from Logos.