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ScoMIS Home Page Banner Part 2

James R — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:53:47 +0000

Further to the previous post relating to the home page banner (http://www.scomis.org/webdev/?p=64), we have managed to refine the ideas and come up with a couple of new options. We have also slightly altered the text that will appear – we felt that the focus for what ScoMIS does should be clear. Please add your comments below as to which variation of the way the text is displayed you prefer. Alternatively, if you have any other recommendations, let us know!

Mockup v10:

Mockup v10 - based on v7, but new text

Mockup v10 (picture 2):

Mockup v10 - based on v7, but new text, on different ScoMIS home page picture

Mockup v8:

Mockup v8 - Based on v3 but new text

Mockup v9:

Mockup v9 - Based on v7 with no blending, and new text

ScoMIS Home Page Banner

James R — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:00:04 +0000

It has been pointed out that when people visit the new scomis homepage (www.devon.gov.uk/scomis), it is not obvious what we do. We decided this could be resolved by amending the banner across the top of the homepage to include a brief description of the service we provide. Please indicate which proposed banner style you prefer:

Mockup v1:

Mockup V1

Mockup v3:

Mockup V3

Mockup v4:

Mockup V4

Mockup v7:

Mockup V7

Please also comment if you have any other suggestions/combinations that could be tried.

We look forward to hearing your comments….

Updated: We have discovered a plugin for our F.A.Q. site that generates a Tag Cloud. We are going to experiment with a banner version for the ScoMIS home page.

Here is an example of an interactive Tag Cloud

Training Directory – Feedback

James R — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:03:00 +0000

Following some Feedback we received last Friday (23rd) it has been reported that the Training Directory is hard to find.

A lot of text when schools log onto training and then they have to scroll down to open ‘training portal website’ not very user friendly. Also when opening that page there is another lot of text. I think it needs streamlining.

Currently the Training Directory can be accessed in 1 of 4 ways. Searching Google for “ScoMIS Training” will also display our training portal within the top 5.

Directly – http://training.scomis.org/
Clicking the ‘Training Directory’ link in the Key Services area just underneath the banner image on the home page.
Clicking the title or any of the training entries that appear in the current courses box, also on the home page.
Clicking through to Services > Training, then scrolling to the ‘Training Portal Site’ link at the bottom of the page.

Is there any way that we change this to make the route to the Training Directory more obvious?

The Count Down is on

Terry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:47:22 +0000

The Count down has now officially started on the ScoMIS Website Launch. The ScoMIS website can now be accessed on http://www.devon.gov.uk/scomis.

The old ScoMIS website will continue to exist and will display a message on the home page from Monday 19th April telling users that the site has moved. The site will display a static news message rather than the dynamic news that users would normally see.

Eventually the old ScoMIS website will be phased out, and parts of the site will be re-directed until the server is fully de-commissioned by County Hall later in 2010. Until then, the old website will no longer be updated.

ScoMIS are committed to improving and continually developing services and content on our new site.

Better With or Without?

James R — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:02:41 +0000

There have been several internal comments about the banner of the ScoMIS homepage, the comments are centred around the “ScoMIS Home” overlayed on top of the banner. What do you think? Look at the mock-ups contained in this post.

With or Without?

Homepage 09/10/09

Terry — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:29:41 +0000

The ScoMIS Website Home page has been developed in conjunction with the WebAdmin team from County Hall and was based on a collaborative design with the help of Carl Haggarty. Because the Homepage is currently still in the development environment, it is not possible to allow external visitors to view it. A screen shot has been included with this post.

Here is a preview of the current design of the Home page.

Home Page Image 09/10/09

The page is functioning very well and contains all of the information that we setup to deliver as part of the new home page.

However some more work is needed, as there is no direct link into the training portal, dispite having RSS content delivered from the portal.

Area of the home page that needs some work.

The solution to this will be to add some additional graphics in the Key Features part of the page, this will serve to highlight parts of the site that might be in difficult to reach locations. Another idea was to use the Current Rotating image banner to provide this type of link.

The example above is showing what it might look like instead of using Text links.

Collaborative

The Race is on!

Terry — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:22:34 +0000

Following a suggestion from DCC Enterprise Architect, Carl Haggarty, the ScoMIS Website developement team have created a blog to help keep the ScoMIS Management team up to speed with the current work, to show screen shots and to get useful feedback about the work that we have been doing.