Website+Version+2

Hi Rich and everyone,

Hopefully you have received an invitation to share The Hotrock dropbox that will enable easy exchange of images and other resources. Christoph will be forwarding the revised visuals for the Schools (new icons) and Hands On Projects sections (that will include a new header with images) by midday tomorrow.

I have been over the current Hotrock content and have some recommendations regarding content changes and suggested imagery that we can source to help improve the existing and new pages. I will forward this feedback in my next installment.

For each new page in the site we will require a brief descriptor which I am happy to draft after clarifying with Rich and or relevant people.

The other content we require is a list of Hotrock Partners and their corresponding logos (I am happy to help source logos). A full contacts list for the Hotrock staff you wish to include, your latest testimonials and the key links you would like to include. I am currently storyboarding some concepts for the front page key word animations and will run those by Rich later this week.

Do you have a Flicker account? If so, can you please forward the details.

Thanks Mark

FEEDBACK ON DESIGN VERSION 2

Hi All

I've synthesised all the feedback on design version 2 into this attached doc





Homepage:

- Orange has been changed throughout to a more vibrant orange without going over the top.

- The main graphic runs on a rotating basis, these can be changed to accommodate the latest news/events/modules and can link to stories deeper down as per national geographic.

- Main menu has been given an orange background bar as per apple and the search field has been moved down and enlarged to accommodate longer search queries.

- The fourth feed has been removed. At this stage I have left the font size for the feed content at 12 as that is the standard browser font size for most users, while this may look slightly small on a 17" notebook, for most users it would be the right size (I have to remind myself of this with every time as I work on a large screen and have a tendency to go big with web fonts)

That look great to me. I am also writing a Hotrock blog and wondering if we could have an obvious link to this aswell from the 1st page. Maybe in the main menu bar? Rich what do you think? This is its address. [] Sorry I forgot to mention this rather obvious point before.



New content listing page - Level 2 - This is the page that is visible when an area of study has been selected. It lists all available modules for a given topic. First item on the left is the year filter menu - by default all modules for a subject are visible, in the mockup, year 9 has been selected and all modules that are not qualified for year 9 have been filtered out. Modules then do not need to be sorted into a specific year, but can be flagged as being suitable for certain years which is then mirrored in the available modules listing. That is a great solution, its keeps everyone happy!

- The legend is now on the left and is already visible in list view. This now allows admins to set flags for a module so that in list view the user can already see which resources are available for a module.

At the moment the modules in English are very simple i.e. only really 1 lesson each. This might become more complicated in something society and Environment or science and I think it would be better t to have the icons (for lesson plans etc at legend and beneath module summary) **only at level 3** as some of the modules have 15 or so lessons in them. It may be worth doing a mock up for a bigger module (one of the S&E ones) just to check it still looks ok.

- The icons used in the area selector have been created/adapted by us. Ideally we would need a comprehensive list of topics to create the first batch of icons. As you add topics we can create additional icons.

Overall I think this is a huge improvement on what we have at the moment and I'm really excited about it. Thanks. Lucy



Changes to module display - Level 3 - The content has been rearranged to closer resemble the PDF supplied by Richard.

- The legend remains visible on the left

- The available materials field is resized to require less room compared to previous.

- A feedback form has been added to the bottom of the module page. You can then use the collected feedback in the module page between the available resources and the feedback form.

This looks good. I like the legand on the left alot and the online feedback form is great. (will the feedback then be displayed on the page as a comment or will it be emailed to us to do as we want ?). As I said above it may be good to try a mock up of a more complicated module. Try S&E global warming global warning, to see how one with lots of lessons and resources would look.