[p2pu-dev] P2PU Learn landing page

[zuzel.vp]

Sharing screenshot of Learn page top (schools/filters/... not added
yet) --> alive at alpha.p2pu.org:8091

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Thanks,
    Zuzel

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
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>
> On 11 October 2011 16:03, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> I agree - this is a more appropriate approach for the Learn page.
>> Skillshare also has a great discovery page
>> - http://www.skillshare.com/learn.
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> (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"
>>
>> We are going to continue to add additional schools - correct? A block at
>> the footer could get filled up fairly quickly. I could see it being a block
>> that directs visitor to a P2PU Schools overview page that listed all the
>> schools.
>
> Good point. Your suggestion makes sense.
> P
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