Infinite Ulysses 1.0 and Summer 2015: Vision

This is a page to think through goals for the 1.0 release on the site for Bloomsday 2015 (June 16th). Time for updating the site will be somewhat limited: I'm giving talks about the project (including defending my dissertation!) through April 23rd, and during the weeks between then and Bloomsday I'll be looking for a job as well as resting after finishing the dissertation. This document therefore prioritizes what I could reasonably get done by that point, as well as tasks I'd like to finish between Bloomsday and the beginning of the fall semester (when several classrooms will be using Infinite Ulysses).

For Bloomsday

Overarching goals: tablet use, accessibility features and design, refinement of customization options, general design refinement.

• New 3-minute vide on site features
• Redo site content architecture and reduce total number of about pages.
• Redo site front page content and layout.
• Remove slideshow tour and replace with a better option.
• Script annotation range replacements so can rip out Neat Scrollbar
• Redo entire site theme; considering divorcing from Bootstrap CDN dependency
  • Accessibility improvements: 200% zoom allowed on book pages, simplified book page features, options to increase text, options to change font, options to switch text/background contrasts
  • Redo book page to solve framey sidebar issues (perhaps look back into modals—accessibility? better way to see all/multiple annotations on a given highlight)
  • Alongside accessibility 200% allowance, design and test site for tablet use (touch plugin, sidebar drawers)
• Restart current reading of novel on site: add annotations and make text fixes.
• Research into moving customization to profile page. Presentation: questiony/suggestiony form, not just empty filter fields.
• Initial sidebar displays empty so random assortment of annotations from entire page isn't confusing
• Rich text in annotations: both building off Annotator.js plugin to allow, and designing annotations to display.
• Curate existing annotations and vote on all.
• Get Ajax comments and hidden threading working again. Comment on interesting or incorrect annotations.
• Highlight set of annotations for class use?
• Get "question" category and unanswered queue working.

Summer 2015 (June 16-August 20, 2015)