inconvenient

Posted on 2007-08-14 22:10 By acer ( Maple Rating 4

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MaplePrimes Suggestions

It's unfortunate, how the "Recent Comments" summary is now so far down the right hand side column that it isn't visible without scrolling down.

Is there any way to customize it (when logged in, say), to get the more interesting content right up at the top where one can see the summaries without having to scroll down?

acer

Another annoyance

Comment on 2007-08-15 08:03 from Schivnorr ( Maple Rating 2

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I'd love a way to customize away that poll on the left-hand side, as well as other items on either side.

Especially since it does not change anymore!

Comment on 2007-08-19 09:18 from JacquesC ( Maple Rating 4

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The poll was great when it changed monthly, but it's been stuck for quite some time now. Seems Tom 4 is slacking off...

New MaplePrimes layout

Comment on 2007-08-15 08:55 from DJKeenan ( Maple Rating 2

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I like having the new Student section. Regarding the layout, how about if the Announcements section, currently at top right, was moved to be on the left, either above or below the Navigation section?

to lay out or not

Comment on 2007-08-15 11:43 from Axel Vogt ( Maple Rating 4

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I never understood that layout, but whatever was said up to now
it was ignored by Maplesoft (it looks like a school magazin)

there is pretty much place in the header for the login fields,
the 'overviews' are easily put into some 'drop downs' in the
menu bar as well (and those polls should disappear for ever).

Then there would be space enough.

MaplePrimes Layout and Polls

Comment on 2007-08-15 16:29 from srozek (

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Hi,

We've been following your comments on the MaplePrimes layout; please bear with us as we integrate the Student Forums into MaplePrimes. For the moment we are testing out removing the Polls and you will likely see some more changes here and there. Any comments are welcome and will be considered as we work through this.

Thanks,
Stephanie
Maplesoft

suggestions

Comment on 2007-08-15 16:55 from acer ( Maple Rating 4

1410)

The left-column space has almost nothing in it, while the right column space is much too full.

The "Recent Comments" list, in the right column, is the fastest changing, so it should be right up near the top.

It's unpleasant how, if one misses a comment before it passes out of this summary list by being superceded, it can't be found again without having to scan the dates on all the forums. And even then, clicking in the forum pages' topic links gets one only to the start of the topic, not to the most recent comment which is then so much harder to find.

Slowly changing summaries like recent blogs should be lower in the right column, and it changes so slowly. It also has a nice convenient backup mechanism to help one locate the recent blogs, in the top bar. If it has a top bar tab, like blogs does, it should be father down in the right column.

The announcements could go in the left column. Good idea, Axel.

My last suggestion here is that some (any, actually) of the other suggestions posted in the past be addressed. Those include comment title's overwriting content when browsers are not maximized, adding a bug reporting mechanism, fixing the way commonalities in user profiles (which appear as links) don't work, and returning the view count on blog entires (which Will said he look into, quite a while ago).