I like the new site; looks very good, and seems to guide me to interesting places nicely.
A few nitpicks though:
Many of the reference sections have URLs that aren’t links.
The summary is fairly hidden: it’s 2 clicks from the front page (Get Started → research summary). If this is meant to be a bit of an introduction, it might be nice to be more obvious. The “Recommend readings” section could be better formatted, so that the text is more obviously separated from the references. (And, the in-text citations aren’t hyperlinks.)
The keep up with the latest developments here box on the front page should be have some indication that it is an email field.
Having an “Up” link, or some sort of breadcrumbs would be nice: gives the user a sense of position, which is especially important for someone entering via a search engine, or external link to a deep page. (Especially from each tech summary up to the tech summary intro, since these are pages that people are relatively likely to link to/find via a search engine.)
The Media and updates looks a little bit like a blog archive with some external coverage mixed in: it might be nice if internal and external links were more distinct. (Not sure the best way to do this: maybe entirely separate sections, or just within each month. Maybe even just have the external links bolded, or marked by a little icon.) (And also, not a big problem at all, but the blog links are inconsistent: some point to singinst.org/blog/..., some to singularity.org/....)
And some broken links/HTML:
“What is the Singularity?” link on Our Mission has eaten extra HTML and so 404′s (it’s actually completely hiding the link to the FAQ.)
“Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures” link on the Research page
The summary appears to have had some encoding issues (or something): ?? throughout the page.
Many of the reference sections have URLs that aren’t links.
Fixing in progress.
The keep up with the latest developments here box on the front page should be have some indication that it is an email field.
Fixing in progress.
Especially from each tech summary up to the tech summary intro
Fixed.
The Media and updates looks a little bit like a blog archive with some external coverage mixed in: it might be nice if internal and external links were more distinct.
Fixing in progress.
“What is the Singularity?” link on Our Mission has eaten extra HTML and so 404′s
Fixed.
“Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures” link on the Research page
Fixed.
The summary appears to have had some encoding issues (or something): ?? throughout the page.
Fixing in progress.
The whole of Get Involved is a link to Opportunities.
The whole of Get Involved is a link to Opportunities.
I don’t understand.
This problem appears to be specific to Firefox (I tested in Chrome, and the problem isn’t there).
Some of the links have expanded and overlay the whole page, so any click anywhere* within the page is a click on that link. Specifically, links with the coverall class in the right hand column cover the entire page (which actually means the page always directs to the link corresponding to the very last box i.e. Visiting Fellows for “About” and Opportunities for “Get Involved”).
The problem is due to the fact that boxes in the left hand column have some extra CSS that includes position: relative, while those on the right don’t. Adding this fixes the problem.
The same thing as I described in my previous comment as the situation for http://singularity.org/about/ (except that the destination page is different).
I like the new site; looks very good, and seems to guide me to interesting places nicely.
A few nitpicks though:
Many of the reference sections have URLs that aren’t links.
The summary is fairly hidden: it’s 2 clicks from the front page (
Get Started→research summary). If this is meant to be a bit of an introduction, it might be nice to be more obvious. The “Recommend readings” section could be better formatted, so that the text is more obviously separated from the references. (And, the in-text citations aren’t hyperlinks.)The
keep up with the latest developments herebox on the front page should be have some indication that it is an email field.Having an “Up” link, or some sort of breadcrumbs would be nice: gives the user a sense of position, which is especially important for someone entering via a search engine, or external link to a deep page. (Especially from each tech summary up to the tech summary intro, since these are pages that people are relatively likely to link to/find via a search engine.)
The Media and updates looks a little bit like a blog archive with some external coverage mixed in: it might be nice if internal and external links were more distinct. (Not sure the best way to do this: maybe entirely separate sections, or just within each month. Maybe even just have the external links bolded, or marked by a little icon.) (And also, not a big problem at all, but the blog links are inconsistent: some point to
singinst.org/blog/..., some tosingularity.org/....)And some broken links/HTML:
“What is the Singularity?” link on Our Mission has eaten extra HTML and so 404′s (it’s actually completely hiding the link to the FAQ.)
“Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures” link on the Research page
The summary appears to have had some encoding issues (or something):
??throughout the page.The whole of Get Involved is a link to Opportunities.
(Some of these might be browser specific bugs: I’m using Firefox nightly on linux.)
Fixing in progress.
Fixing in progress.
Fixed.
Fixing in progress.
Fixed.
Fixed.
Fixing in progress.
I don’t understand.
This problem appears to be specific to Firefox (I tested in Chrome, and the problem isn’t there).
Some of the links have expanded and overlay the whole page, so any click anywhere* within the page is a click on that link. Specifically, links with the
coverallclass in the right hand column cover the entire page (which actually means the page always directs to the link corresponding to the very last box i.e. Visiting Fellows for “About” and Opportunities for “Get Involved”).The problem is due to the fact that boxes in the left hand column have some extra CSS that includes
position: relative, while those on the right don’t. Adding this fixes the problem.*Except on the links in the title bar and footer.
The same thing as I described in my previous comment as the situation for http://singularity.org/about/ (except that the destination page is different).