Stream: social
Topic: Home Page
Grahame Grieve (Aug 09 2018 at 20:00):
Has anyone any comment on GF#16526 ? it was kind of oked by process, but I think it would be retrograde step. But I think there's bit of a tension between the first time reader and the heavy user here...
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 09 2018 at 20:09):
It may be ok for it to be at the bottom. It looks kind of unimportant because it doesn't have a background. If we wrapped it in a differently colored rounded box, perhaps more people would pay attention to it and look to see what was there?
Stefan Lang (Aug 09 2018 at 20:24):
These items don't really belong to the core spec, so putting them in the upper red row of menu items would be misleading.
But there's a lot of space on the right side of "Home". Why not put Lloyd's colored box there? Seems a more prominent place while still distinguished from the core spec.
Stefan Lang (Aug 09 2018 at 20:30):
Would move to below Level 5 when responsive design decides to rearrange boxes
Eric Haas (Aug 09 2018 at 20:35):
The ponter to IGs are buried and need to be front and center. I think we need a splash page with one box pointing to the spec and one to implementation guide directories
Eric Haas (Aug 09 2018 at 20:36):
probably too late to do anything now though
Stefan Lang (Aug 09 2018 at 20:56):
Splash pages are evil ;-)
Basically, "Home" already is the place to give anybody orientation where to click next (a very rich splash page, if you like). Why put something "pre-orienting" before that?
As a user, I'd just prefer to have the "more wisdom beyond FHIR core" area more prominent.
Grahame Grieve (Aug 09 2018 at 20:59):
- Home is reserved for breadcrumbs. Let's not misuse that for something else on the home page
- Splash pages are not happening.
- we already have a pre-orientation box
- do we have to draw a box around things for people to notice them?
Eric Haas (Aug 09 2018 at 21:00):
The issue is visibility of IGs which what many users will be using. I think we brazenly and brashly make them more easily discoverable.
Stefan Lang (Aug 09 2018 at 21:00):
- do we have to draw a box around things for people to notice them?
Yes
Eric Haas (Aug 09 2018 at 21:03):
or a large big bold button...
Grahame Grieve (Aug 09 2018 at 21:04):
well, let's just draw a box around every page using css
Stefan Lang (Aug 09 2018 at 21:07):
It's really easy to completely overlook that area as it is optically similar to the note below. Every other content information on "Home" is boxed.
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 09 2018 at 22:03):
This issue is that on a page where most stuff has a box, the stuff that doesn't have a box (especially if it's at the bottom) gets mentally flagged as 'unimportant' - which absolutely isn't the case.
John Moehrke (Aug 10 2018 at 16:03):
As important as IG are, this is the landing page for the core specification. I think where they are today is sufficient. The visibility of IG should be an independent thing, possibly IG specific. Not all IGs are equal in the kind of visibility they need.
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