It’s that time again. Time for a new version of the vocabulary pages! The heart of it is the new vocabulary navigation page. With this new design we’re trying to make it easier to find the sort of vocabulary tool or list you’re looking for, especially for newcomers. Thanks to George for making the shiny buttons and designing it.
The ChinesePod and Custom Lists pages haven’t changed, but a new Textbooks page has been added. From here, you can activate and deactivate your textbook lists. If this is a success we’ll try integrating it into the other two. This makes it so you don’t have to go to the list level to decide what you want to start or stop adding from.
And speaking of the list page, that also has been redone. We decided we were trying to cram too much non-essential stuff into view upon entry, so we created a new ‘section’ level page, effectively taking the browse tab out of the list page and putting it in its own page, and moved all the advanced functions into an advanced tab and a drop down actions button on the upper right. This way, the only actions that can be taken immediately upon entering the page are activating the list and choosing which section to start with. One of the things we moved into the advanced tab was the cram mode, and by the way, I made it so you can make cram lists from any combination of sections, rather than just one. Threw some fun JQuery animations in there too. Enjoy!
You know what else has been reorganized? The vocabulary options page, the preferences page, and the login page. These are now one preferences page. That’s a whole heck of a lot better I think.
Well that’s about everything that I’ve been doing for the past week. I hope we’ve fixed some of the usability problems, especially the list page, which has been dogging us since we began. We’ll most likely be tweaking what we’ve made, and there may be some lingering bugs since I did so much shuffling around. Please let us know what you think is better/worse about the new organization!
In other development news, Nick has gone back into a sort of programming frenzy that hasn’t been seen since the migration days back at the beginning of the year. He’s been steadily reorganizing the flash code from top to bottom, which is a huge task. When he’s done, he should have a much better time extending and improving the flash side of things. Oh and reading and definition practice. He’s working on those too. Can’t wait!