Clever Dodo Redesign

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gices
MikeSin
Muzzammil
sphinx

As you can see, the Clever Dodo website has been redesigned and the main reason behind this is to make it more responsive. Now it looks good on mobile phones and tablets as well as desktops. The changes which we have pushed are:

  1. New design
  2. Ability to vote on articles/comments/answers
  3. Ability to change your preferences (choose which email you get from us)
  4. Ability to update your profile (add a bio, your website, your social profile) - if you haven't done it yet, now's a good time to do it :)
  5. Facility to follow an article or question (on the settings icon below the article/question, you will get that option and it will notify you of new comments/answers)
  6. A report post facility (for foul language, racism and other inappropriate behaviour)
  7. A dedicated subdomain for all questions from now on
  8. Specific section on the Q&A platform for each language (English, French and Creole)
  9. Added a General Discussion section to act as a forum (you can ask opinion of others etc there)
  10. A tagging mechanism which replaces categories (we've found categories to be too broad and tags allow for more refinement and this will be used in the future to associate topics users like or are knowledgeable in)
  11. Ability to comment on a question (sometimes you need more clarification before you give an answer and it serves this purpose)
  12. The blog has been detached from the website and will be retired. We decided to concentrate on just the articles and will migrate the blog posts soon)
  13. The user profile page contains more information now such as the number of questions/answers/articles/comments, best answers and profile views.
  14. There's a Recent Posts widget on the right column which lists the latest articles/comments/questions/answers
  15. The login page has been reworked and if you're not currently logged in, it will temporarily save your post and publish it as soon as you authenticate

Things may not work properly because we've done a lot of changes. Please report any problems you encounter so that we can fix them straight away.

And try our website on your iPhones/iPads or other smaller devices and tell us if everything looks fine.

As always, your feedback is much appreciated. Thanks.

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MikeSin
MikeSin Level 1

I like the new design, a good improvement.

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gices
gices Level 6

Thanks...you got a Samsung Galaxy S3 if I remember well, would you mind checking the site and see if it's displaying fine on the phone?

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gices
gices Level 6

There was a bug (which has now been fixed) where notification emails were not being sent, so I'm adding this comment to trigger it again for you.

MikeSin
MikeSin Level 1

Website looking good on my Samsung Galaxy S2.

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gices
gices Level 6

Thanks a lot Mike, much appreciated.

Muzzammil
Muzzammil Level 2

i would had loved if i could add multiple social profiles

gices
gices Level 6

Ask, and thou shall receive, lol

I'll include Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus in the next release, maybe next week :)

sphinx
sphinx Level 2

Nice design and lots of improvement, is the instant notification integrated now?

gices
gices Level 6

Nope, but that's something which will be added in a future release :)

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