[ANSTHRLD] CoH website (was: Assistance at a local level)

[Crystal Lewis]

Improving the user experience of a website is actually what I do for a living 
and until now I never thought about it for the CoH website...how sad of me. I 
think you and Jayme are making some excellent points and might actually help 
address some of your concerns with the heraldic system. Many people outside of 
the heraldic college aren't going to know what some of the navigation items mean 
or where to start (and for that matter many of us inside the college don't know 
either, as you pointed out).

I would maybe recommend finding about 5 - 10 people outside of the college to do 
a card sort. It's a method by which you find content pieces, write them on note 
cards and then ask people to group them and then label that group. That then 
becomes your main navigation. It's an idea...

Gwen
Oakenwald Pursuivant




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From: Joseph Percer <jpercer at gmail.com>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
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Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 10:32:25 AM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] CoH website (was: Assistance at a local level)

I have to tell you, for me, the way the site is laid out makes a good bit of
sense. The only thing I had a little difficulty locating recently was the
list of heraldic titles registered to Ansteorra. Then I remembered it'd be
under the Admin Handbook. I think that the main issue for non-heralds is
going to be that they won't understand the different categories on the
website.

Perhaps a couple of links on the front page for Order of Precedence, and
even a link to HST so people can find their submissions status.

Overall though I wouldn't revise the organization too much

Jayme

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>wrote:

> Alright, since I am opening my big mouth and sticking my foot in it. AND
> since it was mentioned and falls under one of my areas of responsibility.
>  Lets talk CoH website.  Not look as I have no interest in redoing the work
> Garreth did,  especially since I could not do it any better, but layout and
> organization.  I have heard complaints in the past talking about how
> difficult it can be to find thing if you don't know where to look.
>
> I will admit even I, who currently maintain the site have had a few issues
> finding things.  Is it under publications, education, etc.  Is it time to
> take a look at what are some of the biggest concerns and confusion about the
> site.  Or is it fine the way it is?  There is a lot of info on there and
> there will likely always be a certain level of confusion.
>
> Alasdair
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