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Type:
Technical Work
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Resolution: Won't Do
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Priority:
Major
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: User Interface
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The home page needs a design review.
Spotlight: This is hardcoded and has no configuration support behind it.
Tabs: The links to various browse methods are buried behind tabs. Numerous usability / search engine issues.
User feedback: We have not solicited significant user feedback. We have received some feedback but it has not been reviewed or iterated on. We have received other wire frame suggestions for the home page to improve usability.
Performance concerns: The home page takes a number of non trivial queries to generate. As this is the default landing site for a domain it may be a better design to have this page be largely static. This would be so that bots/spiders/etc hitting the home page do not generate undue loads on the system. If we keep this design we may want to enable caching on the queries for the home page, assuming that our implementation can support caching. see:
Spotlight: This is hardcoded and has no configuration support behind it.
Tabs: The links to various browse methods are buried behind tabs. Numerous usability / search engine issues.
User feedback: We have not solicited significant user feedback. We have received some feedback but it has not been reviewed or iterated on. We have received other wire frame suggestions for the home page to improve usability.
Performance concerns: The home page takes a number of non trivial queries to generate. As this is the default landing site for a domain it may be a better design to have this page be largely static. This would be so that bots/spiders/etc hitting the home page do not generate undue loads on the system. If we keep this design we may want to enable caching on the queries for the home page, assuming that our implementation can support caching. see: