Change: Denigma UI

created on Jan. 21, 2013, 10:25 p.m. by antonkulaga & updated on Jan. 21, 2013, 10:25 p.m. by antonkulaga

Denigma top menu should be changed. Only most useful items should present in top menu. Concerns should be visually separated. UI changing is not a simple taks and contains a lot of things to be done. In this entry I will focus only on menu items.

I think that top part of the website is overcrowded with items. Right column should be used also. It can be used for user-realted items or for submenus (we should consider both variants and decide which is better. If it is not hard two templates of the main pages may be implemented ) Uniformite is also needed. User should know where he is (chosen menu item must be highlighted) and submenus should always appear in places where they are expected (now I see different places for different submenus)

Lets examine current menu items. I think we should move those items that are not used often by users to submenus in order not to overcrowd navigation and make it clear for newcomers.

0) Polls - is see only several test polls here with simple questions. I think until there are no big and important polls there we can move polls to submenus. Where exactly? We should discuss it

1) Content - there are several submenu items here. -data entries: I think that it is valuable enough to go to top menu -blogs: blogs are valuable, especially when there are list of blogs and feeds there. -wikis: I propose to make a panel with all wiki-related functionality (wikis, changes, relations, alternations) And put it somewhere apart from common menu (maybe left or right column, we should discuss)

2) Links - useful item, should be keep in place 3) Media - useful, but only in case if there will be not only artist filter but tematical filters as well 4) Tutorials - useful, but poorly structured. 5). Repository - right item in wrong place. It can be in top menu but should be moved closer to lifespan and other biology related functionality 6).Aspects. I see that current info there explains how everything is orginized in Denigma, what about adding tutorials to aspects? 7) Search field. It should be made bigger because it looks more like a button rather than an input field 8) Profile - it is a bit confusing that my username (account, admin) is located far from profile. May be the panel shoulb be made (with bounding box separating it from other menus) with all user related items (from username/login - to profile, duties) 9) Notices - there is no info there. It should be removed from top menu until there will be something 10) Duties - it contains quests and todos. I think that they should be unfolded to the top menu,because they are important. Tasks and todos are the same, they should be merged 11) Messaging - nothing important there, shoulb be removed from topmenu 12) Articles - what is the difference between them and content? I thing we should have "my data entries" item in user panel

13) Denigmadb - useful, but in fact it is and admin-panel. We shoul consider its renaming 14) Create entry - my proposal, so stays where it is=) 15) Enries, Changes, Alternations -> separate wiki-panel 16) Annotations | Interactions | Expressions | Datasets | Lifespan => this is a biological and schema-full/hybrid part of denigma. It should be transformed into a panel with bounding box and name. Lifespan project should have About item because it is unclear what it is when you click on its submenus. I will examine Lifespan related items in separate entry.

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Profile Notices Duties Messaging Articles


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