1) First of all - is this on the right track? Is this heading in the right direction?
>>I like that you can pick what to feature on your front page, but i don't like the squareness of all of the previews, i personally don't like having my art show only one small block of the piece i like the whole thing showing, and there's a lot of people who feel the same
2) Are these "modules" a good solution for the site, in particular to give flexible but not too complicated customization, to let users tailor the page to their needs?
I think they're pretty good overall
3) What modules would be most important to include initially? Are these on the right track, or should we be considering something different? So far we have:
3A) A "Featured Artwork" module, where you can pick a folder to display, a sort order, and a number of rows/items to display. Eg if 1, it'd show one big image - if set to 1 row, it'd show 4 pictures... and so on.
3B) A "Featured Story" module, similar to A but for written submissions
3C) A "Journals" module, similar to B, but for posts/journals
3D) A "Markdown" module, which would basically be a big text box you put markdown in, and can customize to your heart's content
3E) A "Gallery" module, very similar to A, but which is automatically populated based on something directly on your profile - for example, your promoted artwork (think "Favorites" on other sites, long-term), or your most popular artwork in your gallery, or your most recent submissions or whatever.
>>3E sounds too jumbled and confusing, need more info but it sounds like it would show way too many different things in it to make any sense looking at. i like the idea of being able to show off your favorites but if it also shows your own art and stuff that makes it confusing
4) We're toying with the idea of putting all content a user creates into a single "Gallery" tab, and moving the split between the kinds of content on the left hand side along with the filtering / sorting options. In my opinion, this looks pretty busy - but what do you all think?
>>is this all contend including artwork, writing etc.? then yes that would be confusing, if it was all artwork created, i think it's already set up that way with folders showing on the side, i don't think that's a big deal but i like how they set it up on DA where they have it so you can choose if a specific piece shows up only in a folder or in the general folder
>>as for any other input, i wanted to add that you guys don't currently show people's (promotes, or public favorites) as files but currently show them as links/status notifications, why is it set up that way? most people don't click on those, i like the idea of having a section that shows off your public favorites that shows the artwork already there so people can already see what it looks like, currently it's set up kind of in a confusing manner...
1) First of all - is this on the right track? Is this heading in the right direction?
>>I like that you can pick what to feature on your front page, but i don't like the squareness of all of the previews, i personally don't like having my art show only one small block of the piece i like the whole thing showing, and there's a lot of people who feel the same
2) Are these "modules" a good solution for the site, in particular to give flexible but not too complicated customization, to let users tailor the page to their needs?
I think they're pretty good overall
3) What modules would be most important to include initially? Are these on the right track, or should we be considering something different? So far we have:
3A) A "Featured Artwork" module, where you can pick a folder to display, a sort order, and a number of rows/items to display. Eg if 1, it'd show one big image - if set to 1 row, it'd show 4 pictures... and so on.
3B) A "Featured Story" module, similar to A but for written submissions
3C) A "Journals" module, similar to B, but for posts/journals
3D) A "Markdown" module, which would basically be a big text box you put markdown in, and can customize to your heart's content
3E) A "Gallery" module, very similar to A, but which is automatically populated based on something directly on your profile - for example, your promoted artwork (think "Favorites" on other sites, long-term), or your most popular artwork in your gallery, or your most recent submissions or whatever.
>>3E sounds too jumbled and confusing, need more info but it sounds like it would show way too many different things in it to make any sense looking at. i like the idea of being able to show off your favorites but if it also shows your own art and stuff that makes it confusing
4) We're toying with the idea of putting all content a user creates into a single "Gallery" tab, and moving the split between the kinds of content on the left hand side along with the filtering / sorting options. In my opinion, this looks pretty busy - but what do you all think?
>>is this all contend including artwork, writing etc.? then yes that would be confusing, if it was all artwork created, i think it's already set up that way with folders showing on the side, i don't think that's a big deal but i like how they set it up on DA where they have it so you can choose if a specific piece shows up only in a folder or in the general folder
>>as for any other input, i wanted to add that you guys don't currently show people's (promotes, or public favorites) as files but currently show them as links/status notifications, why is it set up that way? most people don't click on those, i like the idea of having a section that shows off your public favorites that shows the artwork already there so people can already see what it looks like, currently it's set up kind of in a confusing manner...