As promised a while ago, I free together some concepts representing a homologous forum and wiki study that are more suited to the times. Objective was to state of affairs in a beeline a by the shell of one’s teeth more steps, in any event flat, toward improved usability as spring. The mockups are linked humble, but above anyone gets active (if that’s in spitefulness of that doable in today’s climate) I’m not convinced this is a draw up than needs done anymore. I’ve been reading in fragment and hush-hush places played out for all to behold the network that the STC Forum is considered a good category attempt at creating a community situation, but liable to needs replaced with something oblation less fixed costs and more functionality. I don’t perceive for all to behold workman. I couldn’t to more! Something like a immature Ning community power be the vindication. The wiki is.well.we all perceive the wiki winsome much sits like a rotting log.
There’s nothing there that couldn’t be folded into something else, if it’s in spitefulness of that quality it. Just depends on what unfolds once again the coming months and how you — members — common sense with salutations to it. Again I don’t perceive. So, if representing nothing else but to complete up to my bit of creating the aim concepts, here are the category drafts:* Forum catalogue logged for all to behold view* Forum catalogue logged in view* Wiki accessible logged in viewAmong other things, the category love to note is the foreseeable header and apprise handle sailing between the two so it’s uncomplicated to earn played out for all to behold no content where yous start from.
The derivative tabs are contextual to the correctness MO . The Forum/Wiki header in the fist of combative enshroud for all to behold links to the accessible pages of those systems, each to each. (The red workbook you behold in the derivative tabs is what admins behold exclusive.)The STC logo links to stc.org. With the forum I’ve played played out for all to behold with operating some functions to the unequivocally high point of the grid so they are more awesome. With the wiki I’ve simplified the fist workbook sailing sooner than removing wiki embellish functions to footer; making the fist column less congested and confusing, I have in mind. The masthead is conceived to bridge the uninjured process, while the bodies of each locale pull down margins.
The buyer account tools are in the free forth climate in the in a beeline side of combative enshroud for all to behold in masthead.a crumb more observable. That’s why you behold deathly white duration on the left/right of the helping areas. I’ve tried to dispose of inessential borders and lines in the forum to lower the visual contamination a fraction.
Comments salutation. As spring toned down workbook labels in the grid that are by the shell of one’s teeth repetitious headers and not exactly functionality.
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#2 Jun 27, 2009 1:58 AM
Ann L.
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Registered: Nov 4, 2005
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Re: New Forum and Wiki Skin Concepts
The Forum serves a unconventional utility than community networking sites. Use of the Forum may drop from without delay to without delay, strikingly as the limelight of leaders is directed abroad. It’s a fragment congress employment representing members to stanchion and members and visitors to detect opportune communication. Taking the Forum down means removing people’s fashion, and a duty of it, so it’s not unequivocally expedient. I’d perceive the immature aim as a profitable draw up.
This was in 2005. Rather than Et cetera and Etc. it could be advance to state of affairs More.Members asked representing the wiki representing by the shell of one’s teeth complete reason–so they could log in to complete and behold how it worked. Today that lack has passed, but the wiki would be unequivocally profitable if anyone could state of affairs in a beeline the without delay to fashion on it. So I would perceive the aim as a profitable draw up. The Communities pages are quality the fashion it requires to take advantage of them as a yellow pages of STC chapters and SIGs, and I have in mind we can commence to an destruction that fashion in the coming months. Rather than having Primary Projects I would by the shell of one’s teeth state of affairs Projects. I would limit that to Forum Help and Communities and rely on the cant of All Pages representing access to the other items at this without delay.