Archive for October 23rd, 2009

Theme applied to problematic pages

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

We’ve been doing a lot of work on addressing issues concerning various pages, both their look and usability. We’ve got the current theme working correctly on pages that previously had problems and have created a better way of viewing teasers of observations. The add some images page has been tidied up as has the second step page to it, which now also makes it clearer to users that they need to complete this step to use the images in the site.

The lightbox functionality has been tweaked for displaying images and this is now being used as the more feature on the latest observations block on the front page. The latest observations page that used to be linked to from this more link has been changed to the browse observations page a link to which can be found in the right hand ‘browse’ menu of the site. This page has lots of added functionality and allows users to apply filters to all the observations and browse the result.

The search functionality of the identification fields has also been improved and it now deals with hyphens as well as being able to search on multiple partial words. Hopefully this will be helpful to Mike and the problem with fungi ;-)