{"id":5107,"date":"2016-07-29T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"new-weblearn-welcome-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2016\/07\/new-weblearn-welcome-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New WebLearn Welcome Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that WebLearn has a brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome page<\/a>, which was launched on 28 July 2016. It has a fresh new look, in line with sites designed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/portal\/hierarchy\/central\/it\/wise\" target=\"_blank\">WISE project<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0it is now\u00a0easier to find help and support material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5109\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"new_welcome\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/new_welcome.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feedback from both students and staff has shown that users prefer a cleaner, leaner look. A surfeit of information is rather daunting, resulting in people ignoring most of it. In particular, students want help material that is clearly for them, as opposed to help material that is aimed at site maintainers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/info\" target=\"_blank\">WebLearn Guidance site<\/a> still exists, offering a collection of &#8216;least-you-need-to-know&#8217; guides, &#8216;step-by-step&#8217; guides and short video demonstrations.\u00a0Relevant parts\u00a0of the Guidance site are\u00a0linked to from the new <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/x\/DMnWXH\" target=\"_blank\">Help for Students<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/x\/wquCFv\" target=\"_blank\">Help for Staff<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Responsive design<\/h2>\n<p>The new Welcome page has been designed in a responsive way, for optimal display on mobile devices. For example, on a small screen, the images wrap below each other. Responsive design will work\u00a0even better\u00a0on the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/portal\/hierarchy\/central\/it\/wlprojects\/page\/0d474a16-ca9c-4197-a77a-2af9839f0c67\" target=\"_blank\">upgraded version of WebLearn <\/a>(WebLearn11), which removes the left-hand menu altogether and displays instead a tools button at the top of the screen. Site maintainers should\u00a0consider &#8220;mobile first&#8221; design\u00a0for WebLearn pages, e.g. don&#8217;t use\u00a0fixed-width images or fixed font sizes which will not scale down on smaller screens.\u00a0More information about WebLearn11 will be communicated before the launch which is expected\u00a0in early September.<\/p>\n<h2>Help pages<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/portal\/help\/main\">Help pages<\/a> have also been improved, with up-to-date content and screenshots. They can be accessed from any WebLearn site by clicking on the Help icon in the left-hand tools menu:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/help.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5112 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/help.jpg\" alt=\"help\" width=\"53\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>.\u00a0If you are in a particular tool, click the question mark icon on the top right for context-specific help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/lessons_help.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5108 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/lessons_help.jpg\" alt=\"lessons_help\" width=\"627\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/lessons_help.jpg 787w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/lessons_help-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2016\/07\/lessons_help-768x516.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Contact us<\/h2>\n<p>Contact the WebLearn team if you have any questions or suggestions about the new Welcome page: <a href=\"mailto:weblearn@it.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">weblearn@it.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that WebLearn has a brand-new Welcome page, which was launched on 28 July 2016. It has a fresh new look, in line with sites designed by the WISE project,\u00a0and\u00a0it is now\u00a0easier to find help and support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2016\/07\/new-weblearn-welcome-page-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}