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Improve affordance for definition boxes #90

Closed liquid06 closed 9 years ago

liquid06 commented 9 years ago

It's not clear that definition boxes are things you can interact with. Some ideas we've discussed for resolving this:

isGabe commented 9 years ago

Where can one find an example of this?

michaelhagedon commented 9 years ago

It might be mainly that the dotted underline on the links confused students, but I'm not sure. @simpsonw may have addressed this here: 2cc03cece83a793f41172c8548554d5855a3637c

simpsonw commented 9 years ago

That's correct, @michaelhagedon, it was a simple change to make the bottom solid so they look like "normal" links, although I'm certainly open to any other suggestions.

michaelhagedon commented 9 years ago

Oh, and as far as an example, the "Keyword search" thing on the first slide here is a definition box: http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/locating-childrens-literature

simpsonw commented 9 years ago

I deployed the changes from #92 to http://webdev.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/1-visited-link-colors-and-definition-boxes-test. You can see both the visited color link and the definition color link.

liquid06 commented 9 years ago

This example is from a tutorial that includes these brackets as part of the link text.

Definition box before - closed dialog-closed-before Definition box before - open definition-open-before

Definition box after - closed definition-closed-after Definition box after - open definition-open-after

simpsonw commented 9 years ago

Any thoughts on the new look for the definition boxes, @lsult and @yvonnemery?

michaelhagedon commented 9 years ago

Question: is this good enough the way it is (it's definitely better than it used to be), or should we be looking at @liquid06's other suggestion: "Adding +/- or X icons"?

lsult commented 9 years ago

Hey – I think it is ready to deploy – thanks everyone!

From: Michael Hagedon [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:26 PM To: ualibraries/Guide-on-the-Side Cc: Sult, Leslie A - (lsult) Subject: Re: [Guide-on-the-Side] Improve affordance for definition boxes (#90)

Question: is this good enough the way it is (it's definitely better than it used to be), or should we be looking at @liquid06https://github.com/liquid06's other suggestion: "Adding +/- or X icons"?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ualibraries/Guide-on-the-Side/issues/90#issuecomment-75881060.

simpsonw commented 9 years ago

These changes are in master. Closing issue.