Very exited about the “big, bold, colourful” redesign and eager to see some test pages!

I wonder whether it would be possible to include also the primitives in the database. This would not only require some adjustments to the script (given that primitives are not numbered in the book), but also design-wise, making it necessary to reference images where characters are missing. Although most primitives are now encoded in the latest Unicode standard, not all fonts have them.

I’m not sure whether stroke order has been discussed here. Probably there are some free/cc-licensed resources out there to be included in the study section such as the Wikipedia stroke order project. (With respect to a future Traditional Hanzi section, there is a plethora of material available on the Taiwanese Ministry of Education website which could be linked to, including flash animations and free standardized fonts. Maybe there is something similar for Japan.)

The only thing I can think of is the fact that the quote and edit buttons are at the top of post rather than at the bottom like on most forum I've visited. I got used to here, but I made a few mistakes in the beginning.

KristinHolly wrote:

I'm looking forward to seeing the changes, though I wish I were close enough to finish RTK1 before the website redesign.  Then I could say, "Everything was different back when . . ."

Hey, some of can say that!  I remember when there were only a few stories to choose from for each Kanji.  There weren't even stars back then!  Also, there were some real crazies on the forum back then. 

On topic, hope to see what the redesign brings.  Will Trinity be a part of it Fabrice?

@suffah : No, I am "freshening up" the web site. It's something I wanted to do for a long time. I will not be doing any major functional updates during this time. Perhaps many users don't mind the site as it is, at least I hope nobody will want the old site when the redesign is live!

It's a graphical redesign, but if I can improve the layout in places that's what I want to do. For example I am improving the overal navigation, right now between log in and log out it's all mixed up. Making the donation link more obvious as some users who were looking for it didn't see it, etc. I also want to add a Japanese Learning material page with affiliate links, at least try it out. The homepage also will feature the book prominently.

@transalpin : I can't include the primitives. Heisig and the publisher are ok with the site so far as it does not list primitives. Besides even adding the "radicals" would be outside of the boundaries of this site imho. If I was to do that I might as well leave RtK altogether and create a fully online kanji course. I don't have either the energy or motivation to do that. Working on the chinese version (if I get the green lights) would be a fun project on the other hand, and that's something I want to do on a fresh site (the redesign).

Or, when you go to view stories you can see the reason for report right there. That would be much better than email. (Unless there is are plans for PMing in the future.)

Also asking user to provide a reason would make them aware that they have hit the report button if they do it by accident.

I do like current design very much. It is very unique. Current yellow background is also very nice.

ivoSF wrote:

i second playadom.
it would be very usefull to stay at the numer you last clicked "learned" on
for example if you click learned at kanji 1102 all the failed kanji below 1102 should not be visible in the list until you decide might otherwise.
a "..." button at the top of the list might do this trick.

the way it is now is very bad when you want to relearn failed kanji that are not on the top of the list.

Seconded.

(Thirded?)

hello, it is great to be back on this site ? after a loooooong pause (blush): i took up my kanji study again and also use this siet on my ipod touch. i know you are working on a graphic redesign, but i was wondering if it would be possible for you to have a look at the study page: on an ipod touch/iphone it is not possible to browse by number: you need to hit the enter key to start the search, but that does not work on iphone/ipod touch (or am i doing something wrong?)

Do you think you could add an 'undo' button to the reviews? Anki has one.

The mistakes I make in marking a card every so often probably get worked out in time by the SRS, but a little extra accuracy won't hurt.

playadom wrote:

Do you think you could add an 'undo' button to the reviews? Anki has one.

The mistakes I make in marking a card every so often probably get worked out in time by the SRS, but a little extra accuracy won't hurt.

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Fabrice,

I agree, an Undo button would be great in the Review area.  But if that's too much work, a little change in the placement of the 'No/Yes/Easy' buttons might aleviate some user's problems as I think they are currently too close together.

Perhaps you could put the 'Yes' and 'No' buttons on either side of the card and have the 'Easy' button under the card.  I usually rotate the iPhone horizontally and click with my thumbs.

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On the Study area, I think you've already mentioned adding a Search button - that would be great!

The area I often have trouble with is the "Star/Report/Copy" story buttons.  Again they are too close together in my opinion.


Anyway, thanks again for a great site!

Wilson

Quite a number of pages on the site suffer from the horizontal scrollbar problem. The kanji review page for instance, has a huge, fixed-size left margin. Basically, the pages on this site don't adapt themselves to the width of the browser window.

In the study section I'd find it useful if it were a bit more obvious as to which stories had been starred by myself. Perhaps they could automatically be shown at the top of the list. This would save me from having to copy unpopular stories which I've liked into my own box so I don't lose track of it.