I am not sure that the way we are displaying the category above each group is helping. On first glance it looks like the category is the group name. I would like to revisit this at some stage to see if we can make it clearer.
@pmackay I can see what @GilesGibson means here. It is way too strong. I think I designed these before I really understood how the Drupal listing view of these items would actually work. I think the text should be much smaller, should sit at the bottom of the block and should probably not be clickable.
Is there a way I could re-configure this view or would you prefer to do it?
Temporarily, yes just move the title to the top to match the others and switch the category down into the panel footer under the summary.
However, instead of just moving the category elsewhere I suggest we have a bigger problem with these "cards" (listings objects) which we urgently need to fix for OpenLocal + VAC et al.
I decided it would add value to OL to invest half an hour reviewing how all cards look in order to identify common patterns. There are many inconsistencies in how fields are displayed, how some fields are clickable URLs and how all fields are styled.
It would make our work much easier to reduce this to the minimum number of patterns.
Here are all the cards we currently display:
NEWS
EVENTS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES
GALLERIES
VENUES
PLACES
And here's an audit of all the fields showing on each card:
Fields
News
Events
Calendar
Community
Services
Galleries
Venues
Places
Title
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
Category
-
-
-
LINK
-
-
-
-
Summary
TEXT
TEXT
-
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
Image
LINK
LINK
-
LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK
Y
Date
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
-
-
-
-
-
Time
-
TEXT
-
-
-
-
-
-
Author
TEXT
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
No. of Comments
TEXT
-
-
-
-
-
-
Location / Venue
-
LINK
-
-
-
-
-
@pmackay I will try to rationalise this table and then use it to design a more logical set of standard card templates which we can then use to determine which fields go into each view to drive the site.
@GilesGibson commented on Thu Mar 26 2015
new site
I am not sure that the way we are displaying the category above each group is helping. On first glance it looks like the category is the group name. I would like to revisit this at some stage to see if we can make it clearer.
@djwesto commented on Thu Mar 26 2015
@pmackay I can see what @GilesGibson means here. It is way too strong. I think I designed these before I really understood how the Drupal listing view of these items would actually work. I think the text should be much smaller, should sit at the bottom of the block and should probably not be clickable.
Is there a way I could re-configure this view or would you prefer to do it?
@pmackay commented on Thu Mar 26 2015
As its in wishlist, probably not a high priority?
We need to discuss how to select what changes are going to be selected to be done....
@pmackay commented on Tue Apr 14 2015
@djwesto would you move the title to the top then, same as the services boxes?
@djwesto commented on Tue Apr 14 2015
Temporarily, yes just move the title to the top to match the others and switch the category down into the panel footer under the summary.
However, instead of just moving the category elsewhere I suggest we have a bigger problem with these "cards" (listings objects) which we urgently need to fix for OpenLocal + VAC et al.
I decided it would add value to OL to invest half an hour reviewing how all cards look in order to identify common patterns. There are many inconsistencies in how fields are displayed, how some fields are clickable URLs and how all fields are styled.
It would make our work much easier to reduce this to the minimum number of patterns.
Here are all the cards we currently display:
NEWS
EVENTS
COMMUNITY
SERVICES
GALLERIES
VENUES
PLACES
And here's an audit of all the fields showing on each card:
@pmackay I will try to rationalise this table and then use it to design a more logical set of standard card templates which we can then use to determine which fields go into each view to drive the site.