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smartchicago / foodborne

Manages tweets about food poisoning in Chicago and presents Open311 form for reporting incidents.
http://foodborne.smartchicagoapps.org/
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Complete site design and content #3

Closed danxoneil closed 11 years ago

danxoneil commented 11 years ago

-- Change to 2-column format with the form on the left and the text on the right -- Add a menu bar with

srobbin commented 11 years ago

Question: is the 2-column format meant to bring the form closer to the top of the page? If so, I might suggest that we truncate the intro text into one paragraph, and use a "Read more" to expand the full text. The reason being, 2-columns are going to collapse into one when the responsive design shrinks to iPad portrait, and we'd be in the same situation.

That said, if I'm missing the mark on why we want 2-columns, ignore the suggestion above.

I see that the second point says "Add a menu bar with". Did the second half of the sentence get cut off?

danxoneil commented 11 years ago

Re: 2-column. Yes, meant to do that. I think you're right. We also need a call to action before the intro text. As a direction, let's try this:

Report food poisoning and help your fellow Chicagoans.

The City of Chicago has a robust and simple complaint submission system. From graffiti removal requests to abandoned car reporting, residents can notify the City either online or by calling 311. [Read more](link to expand)

Re: "Add a menu bar with": the "read my mind" plugin apparently does not work. Fix:

Add a menu bar with the following nav:

About (containing text from final planning doc) Contact

srobbin commented 11 years ago

Do we have the copy for About or Contact?

danxoneil commented 11 years ago

@RaedMan and I finished the content and sent Google doc via email.

srobbin commented 11 years ago

I just pushed updates that included the new copy:

http://foodborne.smartchicagoapps.org/

A few things to note:

  1. I combined "About" and "Genesis" into one page. Let me know if you'd prefer something different.
  2. In "Genesis" Brett's name seemed to have an incorrect link, so I removed it. Let me know if you'd like me to link it to something else.
RaedMan commented 11 years ago

There is a missing link for hypertexting "first specced out here" under Genesis: "This was the genesis of the project, as first specced out here"

Use this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/sets/72157629900577162/with/7271843996/

@danxoneil can confirm if it is accurate.

srobbin commented 11 years ago

@RaedMan, I just added the link. I'm going to close this ticket, but feel free to reopen it if there are any other copy edits you'd like to see.