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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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iceman1992 wrote:On the main page
1. "What is protein folding?", I suggest adding a comma "While protein folding is critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology much of the process remains a mystery." to "While protein folding is critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, much of the process remains a mystery."
2. "Why does it matter?", missing space "If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs andtherapies to combat these illnesses."

Edit : Addition, http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-main#ntoc5 has no explanation?
Good ideas!
I don't know why that doesn't have any answer. Must have been overlooked or something. In my version of the Main FAQ, I struck it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jessemv/sandbox The Stats By OS page provides the number of active clients, which is not the same as the number of active folders. I don't know of any page that provides the answer to that question.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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iceman1992 wrote:
7im wrote:Again, you can't put everything on the front page or it becomes too overwhelming. How do you pick which ones to include? What criteria to use for selection?
Well newcomers might immediately want to see the end results before contributing. Again they can just see the "Learn" page, but busy people might not want to.
I won't complain more if it stays in Learn :D
You didn't really answer my question. How do we know what to put on the front page? And what not to put on the front page?
How to provide enough information to get helpful support
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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7im wrote:How do we know what to put on the front page? And what not to put on the front page?
Put on the front page stuff most newcomers will want to know about (I was impressed by the results page when I first visited, and that somewhat affected my joining FAH). Don't put too technical info on the front page (which the current one already adheres to). That's not to say more experienced contributors are neglected, but they're more likely to be willing to dig deeper. It's really finding the right balance between too much info and not enough info. Just my thoughts ;) I'm no expert on web design, just thinking from a visitor's point of view.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

Post by 7im »

Okay, so you say add results.

How about a link to FAQ?

Direct link to install guides?

Dierct link to forum?

All the above seem just as important... But when is it too much?
Or maybe it makes more sense to keep all that well organized on one easy to find page?
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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Good point. Well it was just an idea.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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The diseases page still hasn't been updated. The latest update is from 2010. Come on, this really can't be that hard ;)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Diseases
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JonazzDJ wrote:The diseases page still hasn't been updated. The latest update is from 2010. Come on, this really can't be that hard ;)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Diseases
But the page says "Last Updated on May 30, 2012, at 10:32 PM" :e?:
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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JonazzDJ wrote:The diseases page still hasn't been updated. The latest update is from 2010. Come on, this really can't be that hard ;)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Diseases
It might boil down to a shortage of time really. However, there are several important pages that have been significantly changed fairly recently:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-V7
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Press
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Configure
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Petaflop
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-gromacs
and the Papers page was updated to 100 papers.

There's some useful information from the Papers page or from recent blog posts that could be added in.
iceman1992 wrote:But the page says "Last Updated on May 30, 2012, at 10:32 PM" :e?:
Could've been a minor change or something.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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iceman1992 wrote:
JonazzDJ wrote:The diseases page still hasn't been updated. The latest update is from 2010. Come on, this really can't be that hard ;)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Diseases
But the page says "Last Updated on May 30, 2012, at 10:32 PM" :e?:
Appearantly so, but when you look at the diseases info, none of them have had an update after 2010.
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Personally, I don't keep track of which diseases are being studied but Folding is not applicable to all diseases, and there's still more to learn about the diseases which have been studied over the past 10+ years. If you have found project descriptions or papers that show FAH is studying diseases that are not on that page, please provide the references and we'll be sure they get added to that page.
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bruce wrote:Personally, I don't keep track of which diseases are being studied but Folding is not applicable to all diseases, and there's still more to learn about the diseases which have been studied over the past 10+ years. If you have found project descriptions or papers that show FAH is studying diseases that are not on that page, please provide the references and we'll be sure they get added to that page.
This really shouldn't be my job, but here are some things that can be added:

Type II Diabetes: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=2974
HIV: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ed?p=10126
Alzheimers: http://folding.typepad.com/news/2012/03 ... sease.html
Cancer:
Folding of Ubiquitin: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=8050
interleukin-2 'superkine': http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22446627
Drug design and antibiotic resistance:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ed?p=10720
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2012/07 ... rgets.html

Diseases like Malaria and Chagas are listed on the diseases list, yet I've never seen a project or paper about them. So other diseases which are being studied could be missing from the list.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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There are many ways to help the Project.

Thank you for choosing to help with the above.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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iceman1992 wrote:On the main page
1. "What is protein folding?", I suggest adding a comma "While protein folding is critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology much of the process remains a mystery." to "While protein folding is critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, much of the process remains a mystery."
2. "Why does it matter?", missing space "If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs andtherapies to combat these illnesses."
Both seem to have been fixed.
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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The diseases page has been updated, thanks!
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Re: Suggested Changes to F@h Website

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is there a screen saver ?

would be more interesting to watch then the Green wheel turning!!
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