Post by paul on Jan 16, 2023 22:34:46 GMT -5
Some forum-related suggestions.
The fact that there's a forum isn't easy to see on the main Welcome to the Doghouse page with the link being buried in the “Contact” submenu, and in the mobile version it's yet one more step away. It would be more visible being right out front on the desktop layout and on a separate line in the mobile pull-down. This could help encourage participation.
Continuing that idea, some sites have a good idea in including a line with a link to the effect “Please share your thoughts about this story on our forum” at the end of each chapter.
On the forum itself, topics that have more than one page have links to following ones only at the top of the page. Unless readers have seen that and remembered it, they'd have no idea there was more after they'd read that page's last post.
The fact that there's a forum isn't easy to see on the main Welcome to the Doghouse page with the link being buried in the “Contact” submenu, and in the mobile version it's yet one more step away. It would be more visible being right out front on the desktop layout and on a separate line in the mobile pull-down. This could help encourage participation.
Continuing that idea, some sites have a good idea in including a line with a link to the effect “Please share your thoughts about this story on our forum” at the end of each chapter.
On the forum itself, topics that have more than one page have links to following ones only at the top of the page. Unless readers have seen that and remembered it, they'd have no idea there was more after they'd read that page's last post.
