Qualifications Can Cross Boundaries: A new version in a new website

07-August-2006

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We have acquired a new domain - qualifications-across-boundaries.org - and placed a new version of the UK and Ireland comparison interface in it. This makes a convenient and neutral location so that anyone can point the new interface. In the near future, we may also be developing new areas of content in that new site.

We have just made a new version of the interface for comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland (Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland). This version has been stripped-down so that it is more suitable for linking to from other contexts (for instance from the qualifications organisations' sites).

We have bought a new internet domain to host the interface (qualifications-across-boundaries.org). At the moment, the UK and Ireland interface is the only real content in the new domain, but in the near future we may be developing new content in other areas of the new site (for instance, links or comparisons related to the EQF).

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Changes of note in the new interface are:

  • The 'banner' is now site-neutral and takes up much less space.
  • The introductory text has been shortened ( with a link to show / hide further introductory text)
  • The options for controlling the appearance and display are now, by default, hidden (click the light-switches icon at the top right of the interface to show/hide these

These changes mean that more of the "meat" of the interface is now visible without scrolling. We'll also be looking at ways of reducing the requirement for vertical scrolling when clicking for the information about particular qualifications and levels (check again later today for this improvement).


Alan Brown; 07-August-2006 10:38:15; forum (1) help

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1 I've improved the behaviour re viewing more-info for items near bottom of the viewpane

When you click for more-info near the bottom of the visible area of the page, the page will now scroll so that the entire more-info box is in view

Previously, if you clicked on a qualification or level that was near the bottom of the visible area of the page, the more-info box was partially 'below' the view pane, and you had to use the scrollbar or scrollwheel to read all of the information in the more-info box.

I have changed the behaviour of these links now: the page will automaticallt scroll if necessary so that the entire more-info box is in view.

Mike Malloch, 08-August-2006 16:10:14 forum / discussion
1 replies. Latest reply: ooops - now the new behaviour works in Internet Explorer as well :o); 09-August-2006 09:21:54 by Mike Malloch

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