{"id":25224,"date":"2021-07-07T05:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=25224"},"modified":"2021-07-07T05:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:07:42","slug":"the-new-look-doaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/the-new-look-doaj\/","title":{"rendered":"The new-look DOAJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DOAJ site has had a design makeover<\/a>. On the front page they’ve gone for a 1964 home-decor ‘modernist abstraction wallpaper’ look, which will likely have nostalgic connotations for Baby Boomer librarians, and perhaps a few who recall the early arcade videogame Pac-man<\/em>, but will mean nothing to most students. <\/p>\n

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The initial ‘modernism at home’ buzz does not then sit well with the styling of the numbers or of the “Find open access journals & articles” strapline on the front page. Either the fonts are all sleekly retro-modernist or they’re not. Don’t mix the two, I’d suggest.<\/p>\n

The main Search box button is a very unfortunate shade of yellow, made even more jarring in combination with the blue flash on the dropdown menu…<\/p>\n

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Having made a search, the search button becomes a soft orange which better matches the new logo. But this still has the jarring blue flash on the dropdown menu.<\/p>\n

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Text-selection colour leaves the selected text clear (my Web browser has a UserScript that keeps the text-selection colour the same across all sites, but I turned it off to test). <\/p>\n

Search results are looking good, but on a widescreen desktop I have to scroll down to get them. <\/p>\n

What I get…<\/p>\n

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What I want (and have to scroll down to every time)…<\/p>\n

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Overall, pretty good. But the front page still needs some tweaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DOAJ site has had a design makeover. On the front page they’ve gone for a 1964 home-decor ‘modernist abstraction …<\/p>\n

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