General appearance
I notice that you have 8 menu items across the top of the site... Since many users accessing your site will likely be doing so with a smartphone we strongly encourage you to try to reduce the number of menu items to 5 or 6, if possible, by combining some categories and even reducing the number of (sub) pages by combining some shorter pages into one longer page.
DW 17 Nov: I understand the point, but on my phone the menu automatically becomes vertical, so the length doesn't seem to be a problem for phone like mine which are in fairly standard use. <DM very true! I take it back... ;) >
For example, the categories Audio and Video could be subsumed under a 'media' menu item; the 'Buy dictionary' and 'Download dictionary' pages could be combined into a single page (two column section), and the main Dictionary (webonary Iframe) could be made a subpage under the Language menu item.
**While it is good to encourage people that new content will be added soon, it is better to do this from another published page and not to publish an (otherwise) empty page unless you are really sure you will be adding that content within a day or two.**
DW 17 Nov: I'm not expecting the website to go live (or definitely not to be publicised) until we have the Genesis film, Abraham recordings and songs, creation video and AlphaTiles all ready, which hopefully should be soon. So that really leaves : Genesis text, Creation to Christ, and Lives of the Prophets as not being imminent.
<DM: How soon do you think that will be? You have lots of good content and could publish the site - once additional content is available that is a good occasion to promote it afresh on social media and via whatsapp... >
DW 25 Jan: I've been uploading a lot of content today that has recently become available. The Genesis film is finished at IMS, I'm just waiting for it to be uploaded to Scripture Earth, I'm assuming it can then be linked through that?
From my perspective I'm then happy with the site (I don't know when the next AlphaTiles update will be ready). But as you can imagine, I will have lots of LPM hurdles to jump through til SEB is ready to approve the site...
I would encourage you to make a separate section on the home page with 'coming soon' blurbs for the next one or two items/pages that you expect to publish, you could add links to those pages once you do publish them.
DW: ok, done
Home page:
suggestions: add 'space above' in the section settings ('edit slideshow') 25 to 30 px. Make the section width narrow - this may help to prevent some of the pictures with a smaller resolution from displaying 'pixelated' (eg, palmtree and lightbulb images)
DW: I can't find that option, maybe it would be easier if you did it.
Use the text on image tools to inform the visitor about the destination of the link - (these should be translated into each of the site languages). Example:
DW 17 Nov: I think I tried writing the text on the image, but it showed up really badly when I tested it on my phone so I left it.
<DM: I get a blank box here (above), I am guessing this was a screen shot that you tried to copy in? Would be nice if that was possible. In fact (if my guess was correct) you need to save the screenshot as a file on your pc, and then upload it to the media library or via the insert image dialogue directly to the page. The other possibility is, if you see the image correctly, maybe you have managed to link to it locally somehow, so that it only displays on your pc, but not on anyone elses? >
Video
As suggested above, you could create a 'Gusiilaay Media' menu item and put the video page and subpages under that. If you haven't reorganized your menu structure before you can check out this section in the Help:
https://5.wildfirehelp.net/chapter-8-overview-screen-and-website-menu
DW: I'd prefer to keep video and audio separately if possible <DM: that's fine>
Will the video page be a landing page with a blurb and a link to the subpages? if so you should go ahead and create content blocks with a brief description of the story of Genesis and Creation video resources, and put the 'coming soon' remark with each one, and perhaps a rough idea of how soon they will be available ... ie 'coming in december 2022' ...
The description of the Jesus Film in Fonyi with an image and a live link should go there as well.
Otherwise you could make Video a menu item - (actually you would delete it and replace it with a menu item -see the instructions in chapter 8 at the link above)
**Story of Genesis and Creation video pages should be unpublished**
DW 17 Nov : This probably needs most work at the moment, I expect to have videos available to put here before the website goes live, but until I do, I don't feel I can do much.
Audio
Not sure if there is a special reason for displaying each of the audio episodes separately... we recommend using the Playlist option and add each of the episodes to a single playlist (also on the page 'Way of Righteousness' )
DW 17 Nov : Ok, I wasn't aware Playlist was the preferred option. I've put that in, but I'm not sure how much I like it on a computer page, and I definitely don't like it on a phone, because it's not obvious you can scroll down to see other recordings.
It seems odd that the Audio page has more TWOR resources than the Way of Righteousness page, since it includes the online TWOR app ...
I think it would be better to make this the he Way of Righteousness page, delete the original TWOR page, and create an Audio page which would function as a landing page for the WOR and for the other Audio resources (which are not yet available - make brief descriptions in content blocks as for the Video page above).
DW 17 Nov: Ok, I've moved the TWOR app to the TWOR page. Yes, the aim is for the audio page to be more of a landing page, but again, until I have other audio material available (which should be available before we go live), I'm limited as to how much editing I can do of the landing page.
**then, unpublish STORY Of Abraham, Abraham Songs, Creations songs, Lives of the Prophets, and Creation to Christ pages. **
DW 25 Jan: Have unpublished those except the ones struck through as they are now uploaded.
Text
**unpublish the Genesis page** (If you wish to place a blurb about it being available soon, perhaps create a space on the home page... ?)
DW: Done
Dictionary
Consider placing this and the sub-page(s?) in the Language section of the menu to free up space on your menu bar
DW: I would be happier to do this than to merge video/audio into media, but since the phone menus show it vertically rather than horizontally, I'm not sure I see enough motivation to do it. Or am I missing something?
<DM: good point... it's not so critical - there are still people out there who will access the site on a pc though, once you go live and get some analytics you can see how many those are...>
> Buy Dictionary/Download Dictionary
I would recommend either combining the two sub-pages to have only one sub page, or include those links below the webonary iFrame
DW: I've got rid of the sub pages and put them under the main Dictionary page. But there's a huge gap (on the computer version, not on the phone) between the bottom of the i-frame and those links...
<DM: I will have a look at that>
Wanted to get this off to you, a proper audit will involve checking all the links, and a few other things...
bon courage!
Dan
