Dear members of the TuDiabetes family, We are finally sporting our new look and feel on TuDiabetes. Here's a list of some of the things that changed:
The top navigation has been simplified. We reduced the number of options within each category, removed some categories (such as "Resources", which really was a big mish-mash of things) and brought back the Events category, given the popularity of this section on the site and the fact that we will be hosting monthly video-chat events on the community.
We made the secondary navigation (previously in the form of blue buttons on the top left of the page) a bit more self-evident, to help guide the way for people arriving to the community for the first time (more than 50% of the people that come to the site are first-timers). Each of the eight resource pages linked from there serves as a hub consisting of the top content about the topic it covers (type 1, type 2, etc.) within the community plus a few additional links about the topic we believe to be worth your time.
The rotating banner we used to have at the top of the middle column is now at the top of the left column.
We have moved a few other things around: the popular content has been moved up to the left column, just below the Members box; all the items that used to be listed under "About Us" in the top navigation (such Help, New Member Guide, Our Values, etc.) are now accessible within the footer.
Also, we changed the color palette of nearly all elements on the site, trying to offer you a web site that is easier on the eye and easier to read.
All decisions to move things around, what to feature more (or less), which sub-categories to include within each navigation category (where applicable), have been rooted on data of site usage for the past year.
A couple of other things:
The TuDiabetes logo has changed. The new version is cleaner and feels fresher (we hope you will agree!) :)
We have also tried to make the connection between TuDiabetes and Diabetes Hands Foundation (the nonprofit responsible for the community) more obvious.
If you have any questions or if you are seeing anything abnormal (things that do not looking OK on your browser), please report the issue by replying to this topic or use the "Contact Us" form at the footer. Where possible, please include a screenshot of the issue you are experiencing.
Haven't played with it yet except for a glance. MUCH cleaner, the logo always bothered me. I will go play now, but right off I don't like the default typeface for adding comments, the grey and smaller size is much harder to read.
Thanks for all the hard work, and kudos on the launch!
I'll agree with the other comments... it does look cleaner. I actually found it by clicking a link to an article I followed in an email; I didn't land on the homepage, which was a bit odd.
The new logo is a bit plain, but I guess it just needs to grow on me (I doubt it will change, so I'll leave it at that). One question though: is that a drop of blood in the "dot" for "dot-org", or is it a red circle? It's hard for me to tell.
As for bugs, the only one is this: When I type a comment and I reach the bottom of the textbox, the bottom portion of the last line seems to get cut off. It might be my browser only (Google Chrome. In particular, the bottom of the "below the line" letters, (see: G=g, P=p, Q=q, Y=y)
As for the issue you describe, that really hasn't changed with the redesign. Did you try clicking on the down-arrow to scroll down? Also, you can drag and stretch the bottom right corner of the textbox to increase its size downwards.
Please let me know if this description makes sense.
It does makes sense, and I have been doing this (stretching the box). I just hadn't seen it cut off the descenders on the text with the old font. On an earlier message today, it even cut off the bottom of the entire row of text I was typing, not just the descender. It's not a big deal to me; probably some rounding-error in how the box is sized, and changing the font size may help.
