In the coming months, we will be updating a number of aspects of AgingCare.com in order to improve the usability of the site for you, our members. The two most significant pending changes are a new navigation bar along the top of the site and an improved layout for our articles. These will be applied towards the end of July/beginning of August.
It will take a bit of getting used to, but it is our hope that this simplified navigation will help members and newcomers alike locate the information they are looking for. All of our articles, questions, answers, discussions, etc. are still live and intact, but they will be organized a bit differently moving forward.
For your reference, we have provided a quick guide to using the new navigation below. (NOTE: These details may not make complete sense until we publish the updates and you see them.)
-The Caregiver Forum (Support Groups and Discussions) can be found under “Ask a Question.”
-You can find information on all types of Senior Living under “Find Care.”
-To access content that was previously filed under Caregiver Support (Caregiver Burnout, Emotional Wellbeing, Tough Issues, etc.), click on “Caregiving.”
-Content that was previously filed under Elder Care (Daily Care, Health Conditions, End of Life and Hospice, etc.) can be found under “Healthy Aging.”
-The Money and Legal Section is located in a drop-down menu that appears when you click on the three lines next to our logo on the far left of the blue navigation bar.
-The search box can also be located in the drop-down menu.
To ensure you are logged into your account, look for your avatar in the top right of the navigation bar. (If you are not logged in, you will see the “LOGIN” link in that spot instead.) Once you are logged in, you can access your account information, news feed and public profile by either clicking on your avatar or using any of the “Membership” links in the drop-down menu described above. You can log out by using the link in the drop-down as well.
Improvements to our articles include larger, easier-to-read text, clearer formatting, and an accessible “share bar.”
As always, when it comes to upgrading or trying something new, there are bound to be a few kinks that will pop up and need to be ironed out. We sincerely appreciate your patience while we work through this process to make AgingCare as user-friendly and informative as possible. The entire AgingCare team has been working hard on these changes, and we are excited to finally share them with you!
We appreciate your feedback and will be actively monitoring this thread. If you have any questions or concerns about these updates, please feel free to post them below. Thank you!
-AgingCareEditor
I will clam up and not say anything more... when he realizes this he will ask what was I saying to which I now answer "never mind, I lost my train of thought".
I was given a bright red fox pea whistle and use it whenever I need to shut someone up. Rude, isn't it? Works great! Lol. Use it sparingly.
This is just a joke.
The website techs do not, imo, and however well-intended-get credit for a new website design if all they have done is put nav bars and log-out at the bottom, flipping the design upside down, making navigating the site inaccessible, and frustrating to us, the caregivers.
Perhaps the poor techs have bent over backwards to comply with the AC admins ideas, which may be great for another website, but this website with it's forum is special and unique, requires simplicity, imo.
When this happened to my husband-he was coding-he designed a whole new website offline-and separate from the website as was posted. Then, upon approval by the customer, when the website went South, he just uploaded his new website with very few tweaks. Just a suggestion. It also may take added time to achieve cross-browser compatability.
Next, just for fun, your client will have you design a "click-on this button" to show the entire website in Spanish, or in many languages! Ha ha ha, Lol
Turns out, beyond the jumping around Ad, was the rest of the article.
This happens on fb links to sites with ads interupting the text.
My response is to never go to those websites again, even if I have an interest in the topic.
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Also, I will be reading a new article and I think the article is done because I come across an advertisement... so I close up that article. Then later on when I re-read the article I found I had missed 1/2 of the article because of the advertisement placement.... lot of scrolling to get to the rest of the article :(
but now to compare, nav bars are like chicken scratch. Imo.
So, while you are at it, tweaking the site, new hugs would be great! How about something funny, as if you were going over to a friend, leave a hug showing a person or animal pulling their hair out.
Suggestion: If an edit feature is not going to be available, try a box to delete our own posts just after we have embarrassed ourselves.
Did you folks (editors and web people) read the article about vision changes in people with dementia? Perhaps think about that when making changes. Sure many care givers are not suffering from dementia, but the stress and exhaustion of caregiving makes visual changes a reality for many of us. Why not let individuals select the font that works for them on their computer or technology they use? (sites like medicare.gov let you select the size that works for you!)
I miss an easy way to get to the discussions and forums. I have to search so much I lose the time I would have spent reading, venting, and sharing.
Aging Care gurus, Can you please fix the jumping around pages, at least long enough to scroll to the bottom AND LOG OUT! Clicked on the three bars, log out is just beyond my reach, see half of it showing....way down there, at the bottom.
So I cannot use it.
It seems harder to find discussions but I am sure I will adjust. My brain power is limited these days so hopefully, things won't be too hard to learn.
And I do agree with editing responses, too.
One thing to remind yourselves, AC, and the website developer is that the large majority of us are getting older ourselves, over 60, many in 50's a few in 40's and younger. Some even over 70. We are not hand held device users many of us. We have no idea, while it is common practice to use the three bars, what it is for. If we have hand held devices many don't know how to begin a new paragraph on them. So there are rambling posts that people do not read because of length.
And a quarantine button for those weekend posts that advertise or look for us to buy into a scam. Or a weekend and overnight admin person to watch for those sorts of new posts and the ones that post to every thread that they can find.
And it would be good to report the original comment when we have the advertisers and trolls in rather than have to comment and then report that