My last fix involved improving the formatting of Likert survey questions. The fix worked great on the survey questions themselves, and all was well until . . . . . . I revisited the quiz from the Building Blocks of Arguments topic, which had several fill-in-the-blank questions that now looked like this: Yikes! In the…
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Fixing the formatting of Likert scales in survey questions
With only a few more days until Capstone deadline, most of my fine-tuning is focused on quizzes. My latest obsession: fixing the formatting (spacing, mostly) within the quiz questions that take the form of a survey, specifically a Likert scale: It was driving me mad that the backgrounds of the numbered selections were so narrow…
Clearing and clarifying info on the homepage
As the countdown to deadline approaches single-digit numbers, I want to settle items on the homepage so I can move on to other enhancements within the site and the lessons. Here’s a list of homepage issues and how I handled them. Before and after screenshots are at the bottom of this post. Plus one very…
Adding lists of resources
Though I’ve already culled myriad critical-thinking resources, getting them all into a consistent, standardized format was initially daunting. Fortunately, there are many websites and applications that help you do just that. For better or worse, for now I’m entrusting my bibliography to bibliography.com. Though I selected MLA format, I’m removing much of the information in…
Boxing the breadcrumbs
While creating content for the “Course navigation” topic in the “How to take this course” lesson, I took myriad screenshots. When adding these screenshots to the topics pages, I noticed that background color of some topic pages were the very very very light gray intended, while others will still pure white, as shown in the…
Fiddling with registration and log-in pages and links
It has been said that you may not find problems with your project until you try to describe or explain your project or parts thereof to somebody else. This has certainly been the case as I started to zero in on the “How to take this course” lesson, which is basically a user guide dressed…
Enhancing basic website pages
I’ve been seeking and inserting appropriate illustrations into the basic website pages (registration, contact, etc.). Below are the latest registration-related pages. I may also add illustration for “registration success” at some point. I futzed with the “About” page for a few hours, including futzing with an old photo of mine in hopes to make it…
Enhancing the contact page and form
In a previous post, I discussed the creation of contact form for the contact page. It was a basic form; when a user submitted the form, they got a completion/feedback message with an appropriate illustration. The feedback message and illustration are still on the contact page; they replace the form after the user hits the…
Adding a contact form
Since I’ll soon be asking classmates and friends and family to start testing CriticalThinkingCap.com and offering feedback, I’ve been trying to add as much intended functionality as possible. Today’s feature to add: Contact form for the “Contact us” page. I haven’t added a contact form to a website in quite some time; I was amazed…
Imagery
At first I was hoping to find a series of photographs / photo images on Freepik that worked well together and that could also support individual lessons and topics and subtopics. I had favorited several dozen such images, but I truly wasn’t feeling the love. I broadened my search to illustrations, but still within Freepik….