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NAS Forum - Brand update and maintenance.

Disambiguating Cynosure
over 5 years ago

Brand update and maintenance, 26 September - more details

..."more Details" links to information saying:

Brand and site maintenance - 26 September 2018
Owing to planned maintenance, this site will be unavailable overnight on 26 September, including the early hours of 27 September. We are doing two pieces of work:

Refreshing the design to reflect the National Autistic Society's new brand.
Updating the software to a new version. The main benefit to this should be improvements to the listing of messages in threads, and the flagging of new messages. We want to implement this in order to help with problems that users have reported

...The words "new brand" link to a (small) Page, here:
www.autism.org.uk/.../2018-09-13-changing.aspx

... いま, From myself: I begin this Thread because that is one of the things which I myself used to be most useful for, upon this Forum... But Now things are different and so I Post less (!). Also, However, not everyone notices the Main NAS message, and, also, WebPM says that "As ever, your feedback after the update is welcome." upon the following Thread:

community.autism.org.uk/.../82297

...Lastly from me, this next Link is actually the latest Thread for Posting "Strange" Things... but not many people remembered it...

community.autism.org.uk/.../

...That Thread contains many Links to other Threads which are for specific problems (Older Errors, Notifications, Ideas, Spam, Copybots, etc.).

In closing: All in all, Thanks NAS - especially Mr.WebPM. And Good Luck to all.

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  • over 5 years ago

    I would love a dark theme.

    I do not like the white background.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to California

    Have you tried any of the suggestions on our accessibility page? For example, with Midnight Lizard in Chrome, I can have any of about 15 alternative colour schemes at the press of a (couple of) buttons. On my tablet, I can go monochrome similarly. Feedback would be welcome.

    https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/about-us/website/accessibility.aspx

    Regards

  • over 5 years ago in reply to WebPM

    Should it be down to the user to have a specific browser and plug-in? It's not difficult to create different stylesheets that the user can select from their profile or dropdown in the menu. They aren't likely to be complete stylesheets - just the colour schemes.

    It's not even difficult for the users to have the ability to choose their own colours/fonts on their profile screen and have them applied across the site (granted, it's not something other sites do - but it's still an easy task)

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Candlewax
    Candlewax said:
    Should it be down to the user to have a specific browser and plug-in?

    I think the same and have the same question.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to WebPM

    If you wanted to use the most common UI for users, then why isn't the site built with bootstrap?

    From what I can see from users comments, you only need light & dark themes. And you don't need to be logged in to switch - that's what cookies are for.

    I've worked on government and city council websites and can tell you the colour schemes are nothing to do with anything other than being locked into long contracts with a company that charges £10k just to make minor text changes to the site, and are working to an antique framework that they have no idea how to change. 

    As for the colours, they are dictated by the councils own branding scheme.

    You appear to be over-thinking this, Go with the website stats (I have a website that shows more users visit by PC than mobile devices bucking the trend), and work to the audience. 

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  • over 5 years ago in reply to WebPM

    If you wanted to use the most common UI for users, then why isn't the site built with bootstrap?

    From what I can see from users comments, you only need light & dark themes. And you don't need to be logged in to switch - that's what cookies are for.

    I've worked on government and city council websites and can tell you the colour schemes are nothing to do with anything other than being locked into long contracts with a company that charges £10k just to make minor text changes to the site, and are working to an antique framework that they have no idea how to change. 

    As for the colours, they are dictated by the councils own branding scheme.

    You appear to be over-thinking this, Go with the website stats (I have a website that shows more users visit by PC than mobile devices bucking the trend), and work to the audience. 

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