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Perspectives on Youth is pleased to present its Timeline Section.
A detailed text timeline will be posted in the future. For
information on recent developments, please see the What's
New Section accessible through POY's
Main Page or by clicking
here.
Below
is a timeline--spanning from before the September, 2002 launch
of perspectivesonyouth.org through the current time period—of
the many graphical changes to the Main Page of Perspectivesonyouth.org.
The
Changes have been made over the past few years for a number
of reasons. Initially, the changes were few and consisted
of the adding of additional sections and graphic icons at
the bottom. Enhancing the quality, variety and substance of
the content was the primary focus. Also, the graphics on the
Main Page had a bit of sentimental value as it was, not a
prototype, but the design that was created during the planning
stages of POY during the
Summer of 2002.
Reader
feedback has always been and will always continue to be important
to POY. Eventually, and
somewhat proportionately to the substantially large increase
of POY site visitors,
feedback regarding the color (which was never particularly
positive, even from the beginning) of the site grew sharply
in numbers and intensity, offering comments such as "Please,
please change the orange—I can't stand looking at it!"
And so, the blue/lavender was introduced. Shortly after, and
reflective of that POY
was expanding to include additional and wide ranging issues
faced by children in the "real" world," cartoon
characters of children no longer seemed appropriate, and photos
of "real" kids from the "real" world were
added.
In
between and during the posting of subsequent Editions, a number
of other changes such as the shape of the buttons, the location
of text and images icons, the size of the photos of the children
and the microscopes that surround them; and deleting the white
boarders to offer a better flowing design name a few of changes
made to make the page more intuitive and user friendly.
All
of the changes were mixtures of practical considerations along
with reader and Advisory Board feedback. Every change or addition
was discussed—and sometimes debated—at length. And
as POY continues to develop,
particularly during early to mid 2006, by introducing new
sections, editors, content and collaborations, the ever changing
Main page is simply going to run out of room. (That, however,
is another story. (Suggestions, anyone?)
Why
write about this in such extensive detail or even write about
it at all? Every Section of perspectivesonyouth.org has its
own unique mission and purpose. While the graphics on the
Main Page have changed often and significantly over the years,
the reasons behind the changes remain the same: to offer a
helpful and practical as possible forum for those who devote
careers or extensive amounts of time to improve the well-being
of youth.
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