Design Changes are Coming
We have been working to develop a few design changes.If you have followed our history you know Startlike was pretty much born out of necessity after a few tactical missteps. Mrs. Necessity is the mother of all invention right?
I won't say the first version of Startlike was "thrown together", but it took about 24 hours to get a prototype live and it has not changed much since (except cramming in text links for new features).
Now that we seem to have a winner on our hands, we must re-work the design to be more scalable.
Our goal is to keep the core of Startlike exactly what you have come to love with the daily photo and start page elements (search, links and news) front and center. However, we also want easy navigation into the more advanced features such as discussions, "Condor", the upcoming archives and the future social additions.
We decided on an icon based navigation scheme to streamline the addition of new features. Once you know what the icons do, we think navigation is a piece of cake.
We have also experienced growing pains related to the way our features "slide in" over the main image. This must be changed before we can make some much needed adjustments to existing applications (ie threading comments to make them easier to follow).
So, in the new design, comments will no longer use the "slide in" feature and will instead load below the primary site image. This should give us more room to make things better and improve functionality in the near future.
Before we can launch the next phases of Condor and the page archive we need to get the new design active and you can expect to see some changes as early as next week.
To give you a preview, click here to see what a channel homepage page will look like.
** Please note: the link above is just a screen shot so none of the navigation is functional. In the live version mousing over the icons at the bottom of the page will explain what they do. Some are more self explanatory than others.
Let us know what you think ans stay tuned for some cool stuff in the near future!!
Post by: JT
5 comments:
That screenshot looks nice! Keep it up
Super clean, simple design- as promised. Nice! I've finally gotten into the habit of looking to the top right corner of my screen for my navigating links. (I'm so used to going to the top left- toolbar- or bottom left- start menu- for navigating). Is there a particular reason the navigation buttons will be positioned in the bottom right corner of the screen? It certainly does have a nice look; will probably just take a bit of getting used to.
I really like the way you've arranged your page. The buttons are clear, and I have to admit the colors are aesthetically pleasing, too. : ) I also like that you provide the name of the course at the bottom left. Nice touch. I really appreciate your attention to detail, especially with such a new product.
Ah ha! Now that I've gotten to see the new design in action, the button location on the bottom of the screen makes sense- drop-down boxes! Nice.
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