{"id":1159,"date":"2011-11-29T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/?page_id=1159"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T14:59:15","slug":"comment-themes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/data\/online-card-sort\/comment-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While varied and interesting, the <a title=\"Comments\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/data\/online-card-sort\/comments\/\">comments<\/a> focused on only one theme: Many items should appear in more than one category. In the <a title=\"The Study\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/data\/online-card-sort\/the-study\/\">card sort instructions<\/a>, participants were told to \u201cThink of where you would look first to find these items on a website.\u201d By forcing participants to choose only one category for each item, our data becomes more meaningful. At the same time, it becomes more frustrating for the participants.<\/p>\n<h5>Half (15 out of 30) of the comments shared one theme: <strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Many items should appear in more than one category<\/strong> (15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Next in popularity were:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Multimedia should appear where appropriate<\/strong> (not on a separate multimedia page) (3)<\/li>\n<li>have <strong>various home pages<\/strong> by group (students, faculty, parents) and by subject (admission, academics, administration) (3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>change Admission to Admission &amp; Financial Aid<\/strong> (2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>delete Especially for Visitors<\/strong> (links can go under About Williams or other) (2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>delete Especially for Faculty, Staff and Students<\/strong> (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Other comments (1 each):<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>delete from homepage<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communications<\/li>\n<li>Conference Office<\/li>\n<li>Publicity<\/li>\n<li>Social Links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>add to homepage<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PeopleSoft and Glow<\/li>\n<li>Student Life<\/li>\n<li>Dining Menus<\/li>\n<li>WCMA<\/li>\n<li>policies (honor code)<\/li>\n<li>services (OIT)<\/li>\n<li>WSO<\/li>\n<li>Health Center<\/li>\n<li>Human Resources<\/li>\n<li>International<\/li>\n<li>Tools (internal links)<\/li>\n<li>Athletics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>add to other<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>add Human Resources to Administration<\/li>\n<li>add Campus Safety to Administration<\/li>\n<li>add Facilities to Administration<\/li>\n<li>add Dining to Administration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>rename<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students to Campus Life &amp; Community<\/li>\n<li>Administration to Administration and Services (staff info goes here)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>use sub-nav<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giving to Williams should be small on homepage<\/li>\n<li>Search, Employment, Social Links\u00a0should be small on homepage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>yes and no<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>separate Especially for Faculty &amp; Staff into two categories<\/li>\n<li>combine Faculty and Staff into one category<\/li>\n<li>too many calendars; use one and put staff-only stuff in DM<\/li>\n<li>need more calendars for more specific things (ie, freshman events: orientation, parents weekend)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>and more<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>combine News &amp; Events<\/li>\n<li>Search Williams should be at top level<\/li>\n<li>Webmail should be at top level<\/li>\n<li>better search<\/li>\n<li>better organization (by page content instead of reporting chain)<\/li>\n<li>I Am Williams quotes give wrong message<\/li>\n<li>incorporate multimedia into homepage in a strong visual way<\/li>\n<li>keep Especially for pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next: <a title=\"Using WebSort\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/data\/online-card-sort\/websort\/\">Using WebSort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While varied and interesting, the comments focused on only one theme: Many items should appear in more than one category. In the card sort instructions, participants were told to \u201cThink of where you would look first to find these items on a website.\u201d By forcing participants to choose only one category for each item, our <a class=\"read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/data\/online-card-sort\/comment-themes\/\">more &raquo;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":934,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions\/1161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/webredesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}