Please post feedback and problems about the Collaboratorium Home page using the "Add Comment" button at the bottom of this page. If you'd like to comment on the system as a whole go here.

The home page offers users a very high level overview of the kinds of issues important to the climate change debate, and links to the major functional pieces of the system.

Proposed new text for home page
"The Climate Collaboratorium allows large groups of people to work together in developing plans to address climate change.

Users generate plans by:

•Selecting sets of actions and setting out their rationale for them, and
•Selecting simulation models that project the physical and economic impacts of those actions.
Users can view existing plans, comment on them, and vote for the ones they find promising.

Users can also take part in debates about actions for which similation models are not yet available.

Your ideas matter! Anyone from experts to policy makers to concerned citizens can add their perspective. Even the smallest contribution can play a part in creating a solution to this pressing problem. For more on how the system works, see About the Collaboratorium
."

 

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7 Comments

  1. Thomas W Malone

    The page image above is out of date. I guess we need to update the page images in the wiki, each time we update an actual page. (or maybe there's some better solution?)

    1. Anonymous

      Hmm - no easy solution right now. I'll go through and update the pages.

  2. Thomas W Malone

    A very minor comment:

    The big question at the top of the page seems to be left justified, but it refers more to the text at the right, not the image at the left.

    Should it be centered? Or maybe even right justified to the right margin of the text?

    Not sure what's right, just a question for you to think about.

    1. Joshua E. Introne

      I'm open to whatever;  the reason for placing it in the upper left is that's first in the flow order of the page and that's where people (at least Westerner's) look first.  It is also aligned with "What *you* can do" to set it up as a question / answer (adjacency pair).

      But that's all theory - if you don't think it looks right, let me know and I'll change it.

  3. Robert J Laubacher

    Eric Bobby, Director of Biz Devt North Am, for Amee, a start up that develops and manages carbon calculators for its clients, pointed out that the Flash home page may not show up on search engines very well. Amee = www.amee.com

  4. Robert J Laubacher

    After looking at the home page, Richard Hill found it hard to understand what users could do. He looked for the "Help" section and clicked on the "Help design the CC" tab, with unhappy results. This suggests we might want to (a) make the "Help" link more prominent and (b) choose another verb combination besides "Help design." Maybe "Provide input on the CC design."
    Also, we originally used "View and Vote on plans" in the first button. We might want to go back to that to provide an option for users want to start by browsing.
    Another thing that might help would be a change to the text on the home page. Here's one proposal:
    "The Climate Collaboratorium allows large groups of pepole to work together in developing plans to address climate change.
    Users generate plans by:

    • Selecting sets of actions and setting out their rationale for them, and
    • Selecting simulation models that project the physical and economic impacts of those actions.

    Users can view existing plans, comment on them, and vote for the ones they find promising.
    Users can also take part in debates about actions for which similation models are not yet available.
    Your ideas matter! Anyone from experts to policy makers to concerned citizens can add their perspective. Even the smallest contribution can help in creating a solution to this pressing problem. For more on how the system works, see About the Collaboratorium (link to new wiki page)."

  5. Thomas W Malone

    Here's a thought about the artificial division between "Plans" and "Debates":

    We could change "Debates" to be "Other debates". That implies that Plans also include debates.