The new style sheet for ASLO reminds me that something has bugged me about the design of the site from the beginning. The site does not do a good job of showing just how much is available. When you click on a category you see entries for three or four Activities, seemingly picked at random, and no indication that these Activities are not the only ones available in the category. Yes, there is a link to show everything in the category. It's not that you can't find anything if you really want to. It's that the site doesn't do a good job of selling what it has.
What I would suggest is to put totals for each category in a prominent place on the page. When you first come into the site and no category is selected you should see something like "500 Great Activities Available!" Choose a category like Documents and the line would read "10 Activities In This Category." The other thing that has bugged me is the Recommended Activities. We need to put more thought into what gets recommended. Currently one of the Activities that is recommended is Read. Now an XO owner or SoaS user already has Read, so why recommend it? Is there some reason I should remove the Read I already have and install this one? Recommended Activities should promote Sugar. They should meet the following criteria: 1). Fairly robust. 2). Not included by default with anything. 3). Should do something interesting. Think of the iPhone commercials that show all the apps that are available. Why not recommend something like Food Force or Story Builder? I also question the category GCompris. I understand these Activities are related to each other, but the relationship would not be meaningful to a teacher or a student. A little salesmanship could go a long way in making this site better. James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
