The tech support folks did some adjustments and debugging late yesterday, particularly to try to ensure that password recovery works when you request an e-mail for a new one. They think you should now be able to log into the main site home page (www.cancergrace.org) as well as the forum page (www.cancergrace.org/forums), and that the password recovery system should work. They test a few situations, but it would be helpful if people could try to log-in, perhaps simulate not being able to remember your password and type in something wrong (for some, this may not require a simulation), then see if you can request and successfully receive a new password. You can continue to leave comments here, which the tech guys will check today to monitor for success or failure before moving over tonight if all goes well.
I’m continuing to suggest minor changes, such as increasing font sizes where they’re incredibly small, so if you don’t see some link it would be helpful to add, etc., now is a great time to write down and send in your wish list.
Thanks for beta testing for us.
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April 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Login on Grace site worked fine. Will figure out the rest when I have more time.
Thanks, looks great.
Judy in Key West
April 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
We’re getting there! I will have some comments/questions/suggestions on such things as the search function (once I figure out what it’s doing right now) and also how some things are categorized and labeled, but instead of holding everything back for one large dump I’ll post them piecemeal here. That fits better with what I expect to be a fragmented day. Here’s one:
In the GRACE Posts/Comments section, it’s good to see the avatar photos have now been linked with the usernames of those submitting posts and comments. Can a link to the person’s profile also be included? This is of course done in the Forums section, and I think it’s just as important here.
Ned
April 15th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
ABOUT US LIST (right column):
The Forums and Old Forums links seem out of place here, out of character with the other links in the About Us list. I suggest the Forums link be deleted (there’s another one higher in the column under Sections) and the Old Forums link be moved up to the Sections list.
GRACE PORTAL PAGE:
Since the GRACE Portal, About Us, Board of Directors, Faculty, Our Supporters, Contact Us, and Guest Book pages don’t have a Sections list, any links that are removed from the About Us list (see above) could be placed in the small banner that contains Donate, Text Size, etc. There should be enough room since these pages don’t have a Recent Posts column on the left side.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS PAGE:
The colors in the Home, About Us, etc. banner are not displaying correctly.
Ned
April 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Great, thanks.
Ned, both your first and third points were things I had noted myself but forgot to mention to the web guys; they should fix those now.
The second point is also a very good one, and something I think we’ll address with a slight enhancement very soon, where we incorporate drop-down menus with everything below the sections list included and accessible from the navigation bar at the top of the page. We’ll also include a few additional pages that we didn’t include because they weren’t necessary for immediate launch. I don’t think it will take much time, but we’ll probably get it off the ground first, then tweak this as an improvement.
-Dr. West
April 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
A few days ago I sent Dr. West an email with several suggestions, a couple of which have already been implemented. Those that haven’t I’ll repeat here with some modification — not to be a pest — but in case someone else has different or better ideas to offer.
SECTIONS LIST (top of right column):
There seems to be some difficulty populating the Core Concepts section for most of the subject areas, and the only one that has any posts currently identified as such is the Lung Cancer subject area. Since Core Concepts is the first subheading in the Lung Cancer Subject Archives list, it stands out nicely there and probably doesn’t need a separate link in the Sections list. Removing the Core Concepts link from the Sections list would also solve the problem of what to do with the other areas, and those that later develop such posts can identify them as such in their Subject Archives list. With this approach, every subject area would have 7 links in the Sections list: Recent Posts, Subject Archives (missing from some), Monthly Archives, Other Resources (missing from some), Forums, Old Forums, and Donate.
SUBJECTS LIST (drop-down box):
Since there’s room, I suggest changing General to General GRACE News to correspond with how it’s presented in the top banner when that subject area is selected. That might also save the new user a few wasted clicks, since at that point he’s probably more interested in cancer than news about the organization.
Likewise, Cancer Treatments in the drop-down list doesn’t give a very complete picture of what’s in that subject area. The banner title (and the corresponding forums section) includes Symptoms & Support, and management of side effects is an important part of that, so a more descriptive drop-down name might be helpful to the new user. I don’t have a great suggestion on what to use that wouldn’t be too long to fit — maybe Treatments / Patient Support or something similar.
Later I may have some comments/suggestions on the Search function and on how the Subject Archives list is presented in each of the subject areas. Aloha,
Ned
April 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The login worked fine- my password was recognized when I clicked on your link (www.cancergrace.org). I have Onctalk as a widget on my Google homepage- will that be updated? Currently when I click on an article to read, it brings me to the onctalk page.
Thanks
Cath
April 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Thanks, Ned. never taken as anything but exactly the constructive and highly fixable suggestions we need. Some of the tweaks may be deferred until the transition, but several of these issues were just oversights with many things to change. PLEASE continue these suggestions/reminders. Things that haven’t been edited haven’t necessarily been rejected but rather may still be on the “to do” list, or may have slipped off by accident.
And Cath, is this more than just a favorites page? I’ll ask the web guys if we can add a button on the header or somewhere else throughout the site to “Add to Favorites”.
-Dr. West