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The EHRI project's portal interface.
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Revamping the front page... #438

Closed mikesname closed 9 years ago

mikesname commented 9 years ago

The portal front page needs to make a decent impression. It should:

I think we need:

@retosp : would you have any ideas about the text? i.e: explaining EHRI in one sentence?

retosp commented 9 years ago

Of course I’m happy to have a go at this. Just so that I understand better what is required:

Do you intend to include countries, institutions and archival descriptions on the front-page (rather than historical agents, institutions and archival descriptions as we have at the moment). And if so are you looking for a one line description of each category that goes below the ‘’Browse 3,132 archival descriptionshttps://portal.ehri-project.eu/units in 100 repositorieshttps://portal.ehri-project.eu/institutions?data=yes’’, etc. texts?

Are you intending to get rid of the ‘latest news’ section do make space for the introductory text on EHRI? Or do you want to accommodate both?

Cheers, Reto

From: Mike Bryant [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: 17 November 2014 11:05 To: mikesname/docview Cc: Speck, Reto Subject: [docview] Revamping the front page... (#438)

The portal front page needs to make a decent impression. It should:

I think we need:

@retosphttps://github.com/retosp : would you have any ideas about the text? i.e: explaining EHRI in one sentence?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mikesname/docview/issues/438.

mikesname commented 9 years ago

@retosp Here's what I've got at the moment. Obviously the background image ain't perfect, given the amount of cognitive and ascetic tension it causes!

The news section will be gone or condensed to just the last two items.

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mikesname commented 9 years ago

Another attempt:

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retosp commented 9 years ago

Hi Mike,

I think visually it already looks very nice. Maybe the texts could be tweaked a bit, and I can have a look at this later this week. Maybe it would also be an idea to have another short text (2-3 sentences) further below to give an overview of EHRI/the portal as a whole? Again I can have a go at this.

mikesname commented 9 years ago

@retosp : yes, that's what I had in mind for the short introductory text. Say what the site's for basically.

retosp commented 9 years ago

Cool – we agree then. I will write something.

From: Mike Bryant [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: 17 November 2014 15:38 To: mikesname/docview Cc: Speck, Reto Subject: Re: [docview] Revamping the front page... (#438)

@retosphttps://github.com/retosp : yes, that's what I had in mind for the short introductory text. Say what the site's for basically.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mikesname/docview/issues/438#issuecomment-63322470.

mikesname commented 9 years ago

TODO: Add on the front page some explanation of how and why people should sign up.

retosp commented 9 years ago

I've tried to write a short intro text and to revise the existing explanations for the different categories. I'm not sure I've succeeded though.

Proposed intro: "The EHRI portal offers access to rich information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond. Sign-up to the portal to get access to advanced functionality that enables you to organise information and share it with other researchers. For more information on the EHRI project visit http://ehri-project.eu; for details about the information that is available via the EHRI portal, visit http://xyz (yet to be written)." I basically tried to give some hint to people to sign-up (and we could give some more information why signing-up is useful on the sign-up page itself), and to point them to further relevant information.

National reports Rename to "Countries" and change the text to the following: "An inventory of countries in which Holocaust-related archival material can be found. For most countries, reports are available that provide concise overviews of their Second World War and Holocaust histories, their archival situation as well as details on how the EHRI project has identified archival institutions and collections" The idea is to make a bit clearer what countries/national reports are ...

I haven't really come up with anything better for the texts for Archival instiutons and Archival descriptions than what we currently have... As you remember we got feedback at the testing workshop that it would be good to make it clear that it is possible to go from countries to institutions to descriptions. But I haven't really found a meaningful way of describing this.

Another quick comment: I guess we'll also have to have a separate category for the Research Guides once they are in a semi-fit state?

mikesname commented 9 years ago

Two things I'm not entirely happy with on the lead text:

For the moment, I've gone with this:

The EHRI portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond. For more information on the EHRI project visit http://ehri-project.eu.

valeasc commented 9 years ago

Latest news is kind of lost in the frontpage. I suggest to improve this part visually by: