[p2pu-dev] P2PU Learn landing page

[Arlton Lowry]

Sorry guys - ignore the last message. Mockingbird didn't save my work. I've got to redo it. :/

> 
> 
> On 10 October 2011 22:56, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Schools blocks at the top distract from the general courses that aren't associated with any School. It forces the user to scroll down to find the courses. 
> 
> Yeah, no matter what we do with the schools at the top of the Learn page, they're going to take up a large chunk of space. And it will only continue get bigger once we add more schools. 
> 
>> Would be useful to know if most of our current users are looking for an overview of the different Schools, if they tend to look for one specific School, or if they browse the list of courses. 
> 
> I think it would be helpful for the users if we had an overview page that had a small summary for each school, so they didn't have to visit each individual school to get an idea of what that school is about.
> 
> I agree. Could link to it from the Footer rather than add to top navigation.
>  
>> We might need a separate Schools overview page, and keep the Learn page focused on helping users find and filter from all the available courses / groups across all the Schools. 
> 
> The reason we were moving the schools to the Learn page was to cut back on the top navigation, so we only had "Learn" and "Contribute", which are both action words. If we changed the top navigation to "Learn", "Contribute", and "Schools" it would be awkward because "Schools" is not an action word.
>  
> What are your thoughts, Phillipp?
> 
> It's tricky. Long-term I think we need to consider building out stronger identities for Schools within P2PU (do we want it to work like Ning, like tumblr, like wordpress.com etc.?)
> 
> But short term - what about something like this:
> 
> (1) Learn page focused on finding courses, not schools (see -> http://www.kickstarter.com/discover for an example)
> 
> * We list Schools as a filter option in the same way that Kickstarters uses "Categories". When the user clicks on the name of the School it filters which courses that are displayed. 
> * Different from Kickstarter: We add a little text ("Go to Schools Page") next to the School name, which takes users away from the Learn page to the actual School Home Page.
> 
> (2) Make it easier to find a particular school:
> 
> * Add a schools block to the footer. Either keep this block on all pages (http://alpha.p2pu.org:8091/en/) or make the bottom section four columns "What is P2PU" "Our Supporters" "P2PU Schools" "Connect With Us"
> 
> P
>  
>  
> 
> 
>> I've mocked up an alternative layout for the Learn landing page. Please take a look at it and let me know if you think it works better than the previous mockup I sent out on Friday.
>> 
>> Mockup: https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#m5ase18/EM27pc
>> 
>> Arlton
>> 
>>>> Hello all.
>>>> 
>>>> I've been giving some thought to the Learn landing page this morning and I'd
>>>> 
>>>> like to get everyones input on the mockup I have create.
>>>> 
>>>> https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#m5ase18/EM27pc
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> Arlton
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> p2pu-dev mailing list
>> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
>> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> p2pu-dev mailing list
>> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
>> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> p2pu-dev mailing list
> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> p2pu-dev mailing list
> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.p2pu.org/pipermail/p2pu-dev/attachments/20111011/2830b009/attachment-0001.html>