Please review the following pages for glaring errors or omissions. Add your comments to this document by end of day Friday, September 13, 2024.
Remember this is a dev site so news content may not be up to date.
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(Deems) Overall comment - this looks good!
(Deems) We’re “wasting” a lot of valuable space on the home page with the image and a single “Get Started” box. Can we shrink that and display the text below the image more prominently?
There’s also a lot of wasted space in the white box next to the NSF/ACCESS logos
Since there’s now a “News” button on the navigation bar, maybe we should scrap listing the news at the bottom of the page.
(Deems) the “Find Information for You” section shouldn’t be buried at the bottom. Consider moving this just below the first 2 paragraphs of text.
(Deems) the videos at the bottom have strikingly low views (under 200 for each). Can we put these in another place?
(Towns) perhaps be more direct… at no cost to you!
(Towns) in general agree with Stephen that we have a lot of white space. I prefer more compact pages, personally. I know this can hinder readability, but still seems to be more blank space that there should be.
(Towns) In numbered item 3, “EXPLORE ACCESS is a good place to start” should probably read “An ACCESS EXPLORE allocation is a good place to start.”
(Towns) Under the “run and track” heading there is a typo: Pegasus is an easy to use workflow management tool managed from within aJupyter Notebook.
(Towns) Meta comment: I think we need to move away from using “supercomputing” and “HPC” as terms as much as possible. We are finding many who would benefit from these resources, do identify with the terms and think this is all for someone else. This is particularly true in new communities we are trying to engage and this tends to push them away.
(Knuth) Could we move up the persona links to be before the news highlights?
(Knuth) Can we put a link on the home page (ideally at the top) for people to submit tickets?
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(Deems) Considering adding “available through ACCESS” to the opening sentence: “Computational researchers of all experience levels use advanced computational resources available through ACCESS to take their research to the next level.
(Towns) This is an important point and we should actually never say “ACCESS resources” but “available via ACCESS” or “allocated by ACCESS” or similar. There are political sensitivities around this.
(Hart - for all non-RP persona pages)Each starts with a "content-free" sentence, then pushes again the About ACCESS FAQ, then a set of Quick Links, then — if you scroll far enough — a different set of FAQs. E.g., three handfuls of spaghetti hoping we'll get something that sticks. The Quick Links on each persona pages, should be turned into Qs for the FAQ lists, if they're not already there. So, just one FAQ list for each persona.
(Towns) I have to admit I am not fully following Dave here, but I think he is on to something….
(Towns) I am still struggling with how I get to the point of submission. It feels like I hit the Getting Started page, but I don't know the details for my persona, so I go there. Then I need to go back up to the Getting Started page to actually submit anything. Feels like the workflow of this should be written out and the appearance of information should support that workflow as efficiently as possible.
(Towns) It feels like the Quick links should follow the Questions….
(Knuth) I think this applies to all, but I feel like that’s an old Support webpage that’s being linked under the “Are Support Services Available” and the “ACCESS MATCH Services” Like. First, this should be called “ACCESS Support”, not “ACCESS Match” (we got rid of that name awhile ago). Second, this is the link to the Support page: https://support.access-ci.org/ . (It’s also possible that I’m out of date here too and this is the new page for Support? Might be good to ask Andrew - he’ll know more).
(Knuth) similarly on that tab - do we want to link to CCMNet? It make it look like this project is part of ACCESS when it isn’t. I could see people getting confused and going there to ask for direct ACCESS support. It might be better under an “external orgs” section, should one exist somewhere.
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(Deems) general comment, I don’t see this linked from the landing page. I see it linked from the “About” page.
(Deems) this first paragraph needs proofread and word-smithed:
“Being a part of ACCESS will give you a unique experience, allow you the opportunity to network with other researchers, and give you the chance to discover valuable insights on how to get your research project rolling.”
We should lead with an overview of the ways people can get involved rather than very generic text about unique experiences.
(Towns) Not everyone has a research project to get rolling. What if they are an educator or potential RP?
(Knuth) Same comment about the perhaps out of date website as I had above (or maybe I’m out of date). This time I’m referring to the CCEP link https://support.access-ci.org/ccep/ccep-details