GO website item #1183760, was opened at 2005-04-15 13:53
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Submitted By: girlwithglasses (girlwithglasses)
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Summary: general website reorganization
Initial Comment:
A few suggested changes for the website - this is the assimilation of
what was suggested at the meeting, items from the tracker here and
various harebrained ideas of my own.
Content stuff:
- add a new section of walkthroughs / tutorials, encompassing the
'quickstart' stuff that Jane and I proposed at the meeting
this section will have tutorials on
* finding annotation data for your gene/protein of interest
* finding annotation data for a group of genes/proteins
* searching/browsing by process/function/component
- general AmiGO usage (?)
- submitting a sourceforge request / reporting an ontology error (http:/
/www.geneontology.org/GO.requests.shtml)
* reporting an annotation error
* submitting annotation (protocols still to be decided?)
* = to be written!
- add (copy) some documentation on 'sensu' to the "Introduction" in
the docs section
- move the editorial style guide to the curator guides section as other
than the sensu bits, it's all pretty specific to editing GO
- merge the contents of the standard operating procedures in with the
other curator guides
Left-hand menu stuff:
- remove 'archives' section. Rehome the current contents as follows:
teaching resources, monthly reports --> downloads
ftp, flat file archive, XML/MySQL archive --> these links are already
on the downloads page
email archives --> link from the page describing the mailing lists
- delete the menu item 'Report errors' as it is covered by the 'Contact
GO' item
- add 'Cite GO' item to the 'About GO' menu?
Footer:
- Restyle the document footer, including adding the OBO logo and
moving the disclaimer text to the 'Terms of use' page. See the
attached file template.html for the prototype.
Header:
- Add a header to each page, including the GO logo, the text 'The
Gene Ontology website' (or something similar), a catchy little phrase
if we can think of one, plus the AmiGO search box in the top right
hand corner. The logo that I've used in the top bar is just an enlarged
version of the current one minus the red text.
Page navigation and organization:
- Restyle the page contents as a vertical list. The contents for the
attached template page were generated by parsing the h2 and h3
tags from the page and applying different styles. Page contents are
also divided into blocks, which gives more of a feeling that similar
content is being kept in one place.
Other suggestions:
- move the news items to a separate page, and have links from an
abbreviated version on the index page to the full item on the news
page.
- move all the funding info, apart from the two main grants (EU and
NHGRI), to a separate page.
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>Comment By: girlwithglasses (girlwithglasses)
Date: 2005-06-10 13:14
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Done most of the page restyling and some content reorganization. Some areas,
particularly the crossovers between the style guide and the curator guides, need
further reorganization / content editing.
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-20 09:19
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Yes I like that.
or 'breaking down biological language barriers' if it wasn't such a mouthful.
Is there a snappier version of that that means the same?
Jen
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Comment By: Tanya Berardini (tairtb)
Date: 2005-04-19 18:00
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Re: tag line
How about
'bridging biological language barriers' ?
Tanya
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-19 15:41
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How about:
'[something] biological language'
where [something] equals not clarifying or unifying but something along
those lines?
Jen
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Comment By: Midori Harris (gomidori)
Date: 2005-04-19 15:38
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> how about 'integrating biological nomenclature' ?
risky, because many many biologists will think of gene names ...
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-19 15:37
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Fine by me. :-)
Jen
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Comment By: girlwithglasses (girlwithglasses)
Date: 2005-04-19 15:26
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another request - move the site search to the page header, too. Anyone
have any strong views on this?
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Comment By: Jane Lomax (jl242)
Date: 2005-04-19 12:16
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For the not yet written content bits, could probably just
steal most of it from that tutorial paper I've been writing,
and we could use the exisiting AmiGO tutorial (one thing
we'll have to think about is how we keep this up-to-date,
but I think it would be useful to have this anyway).
Is the search box in the top right corner a website search
or a search GO? Should probably say.
For our catchy tagline, how about 'integrating biological
nomenclature'? Although that's not really catchy. I like the
logo/header btw.
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-19 08:44
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For this idea:
'- the menu stays in view on the left hand side no matter how
far down the
page you scroll.'
I did actually do a mock-up of that before using CSS.
However, there was a difficulty. If you can't scroll down
the menu itself then if it is too long for the screen then
you can never get to the bottom of it. That could be a
problem for some people with smaller monitors.
Perhaps there are ways round that. I didn't look into it
beyond that.
Jen
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Comment By: girlwithglasses (girlwithglasses)
Date: 2005-04-19 08:30
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Two other ideas from website users:
- links to external sites open in a new window
- the menu stays in view on the left hand side no matter how far down the
page you scroll.
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Comment By: Harold J. Drabkin (hjdrabkin)
Date: 2005-04-15 17:22
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Ah, sorry about that; I was afraid this was going to be the index/start;
But you still might consider breaking it out a bit into more than one page. I
like a page that will just fit only my screen if I go top to bottom, assuming a
standard font size for the resolution of the screen. Then I can open the links
in new pages and have them side by side, etc.
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-15 15:33
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Hi Amelia,
Thanks for the tip on fixing the font. :-) I'll have a go at that.
Jen
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Comment By: girlwithglasses (girlwithglasses)
Date: 2005-04-15 15:26
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Thanks for the comments so far!
Harold - this isn't meant to be the index page - this is just a sample page
which demonstrated the various features I wanted to incorporate into a
generic GO website page. I chose the process ontology guidelines because
it had a lot of content so it would be a good test of the page organization
schema. Obviously most pages have far less content than this so the table
of contents, as well as the page itself, would be shorter.
The font size is set automatically by your browser - in the browser
preferences, you can set what your preferred display font size is, and the
stylesheet used by this page sizes the fonts accordingly (in Safari, it's under
Preferences > Appearance > Standard font -- mine is set as Verdana 14pt,
just for reference). At the moment, the body text on the page is set to
whatever your standard font size is.
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Comment By: Midori Harris (gomidori)
Date: 2005-04-15 14:59
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I like it big -- big=legible :)
I agree with Jen, it doesn't have to say 'website' (if they can't
tell they've visited a web site, they are beyond any help we
could give them). Perhaps 'project' would fit instead ....
The home page should be short and sweet, but for the rest of
the pages, it would be bad to split things arbitrarily just to
make any one page shorter.
Harold, I think I still have the magic upload touch, so if you
can't add your piccy, email it to me and I'll attach it to this.
m
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Comment By: Jennifer I Clark (jenclark)
Date: 2005-04-15 14:50
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Hi Amelia,
I think that template is really fantastically stylish and huge improvement on
the current one. The within page navigation section seems a bit long but I
think that's a minor quibble bearing in mind how much more professional
the site would look with this kind of improvement.
I agree with Harold that we still have a lot on individual pages, but you
could look at that after implemeting this new style if people agreed to it.
I think that trying to solve all the problems at once is not really a realistic
goal, and gradual incremental change is much better.
On my browser the text of the actual documentation is very big. Is that a
general thing?
Also at the top you could just have 'the Gene Ontology' and lose the word
website.
Very nice effort there. I like it a lot. :-)
Jen
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Comment By: Harold J. Drabkin (hjdrabkin)
Date: 2005-04-15 14:39
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There still seems to be far too much on one page.
I had an idea that I was playing with for the main page, that I'm summarized
in this powerpoint slide; the thing would be very graphical, with the GO site
being divided into about 4 main sections: ontology development, annotation
development, data mining/analysis , and maybe an "about us" section.
The graphic in the middle would link to someting describing what the GO
is, etc.
I'd like to attach it to this but I seem to have lost my ability to upload here
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Comment By: Midori Harris (gomidori)
Date: 2005-04-15 14:00
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Now that the EU grants have run out, I tihnk they could go
on the spiffy new funding-gory-details page too.
m
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