CUNY Academic Commons

As discussed in Tuesday's dev meeting, we're going with an overlay/interstitial like the one implemented on Net Neutrality Day - users going to the home page will be presented with the overlay informing them of the new feature.

This overlay should contain a screenshot, brief descriptive text, and a link to a 'More About My Commons' support page (perhaps one of the Codex pages), as utilized elsewhere.

Can I get some more details?

- Is someone preparing the screenshot, etc?
- Will styling be the same as Net Neutrality?
- What's the "dismiss" behavior going to be? Show one time to each user?

Boone - we talked about it in yesterday's Dev meeting, very briefly it's a single page containing an image, very brief text and a link (as its been conceived thus far), and it should be quite easily executed. More details as to who, what and when will be available after the noon Comm team call.

You're welcome to join!

I think dismiss-wise, it's a once-per-customer proposition, but there's always the UX/IA issue about how to bring the user back if they want to see it again. That came up and will very likely come up again in today's call.

Please see #3534 for the persistent link.

Hi Scott - As you think about the way this page will look, let me point you to http://cdev.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons/?show_overlay=1 - I'd like to reuse the popup from when we implemented the new profiles. Maybe we could use the same color scheme, etc.

Please let me know as soon as you've got something, so that the dev team can begin implementation. Even if the wording is not final, we want to make sure we have plenty of time to do any necessary work on images, etc.

Thanks, Boone. If we are going to reuse that, I think we should rethink the color scheme a bit. In the main part of the window, I'd like to see dark text on a white background for one thing for reasons of readability, usability, and aesthetics.

OK. But time is ticking, so if we need changes at the design level, let's please get them as soon as possible. This stuff is not always trivial to implement, and I very much want to avoid leaving this until the last minute.

Looks great -- many thanks, Chris.

The overlay on cdev is just there so people can see what the old one looks like. No actual implementation has taken place yet. I'll do it tonight or tomorrow.

Cool - thanks.

Hi Boone n pals -

I think it looks very good. Two issues I see:

1. Size of box v size of text - I'm seeing a lot of whitespace on Chrome below the 'close window' so we may want to put a different width or height on the box. Let's discuss in our call.

2. the link to 'My Commons' has no '/#' following '/my-commons,' resulting in a page not found. Might be something related to the temporary test version so if so, no worries.

Thanks!

the link to 'My Commons' has no '/#' following '/my-commons,' resulting in a page not found. Might be something related to the temporary test version so if so, no worries.

The link goes to commons.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons. The production URL is hardcoded, and the feature is not yet live on the production site.

No. The overlay is not written to resize - it determines window size at load time, and does not adjust. The image is hidden with a proper media query, so it does disappear when resizing. To test at various widths, please refresh.