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Site o' the Month : The Poetry Foundation

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Submitted by Courtney Clark on 27 February 2008
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I'm specifically looking at the Poetry Tool. You can get to it from the global navigation or from a feature on the home page.

Clear Action Points

 

Intuitive Filter Options

Start with the obvious

If you know who you like already

For presentations

For research and further learning

For teachers and parents

Visual Progression The size of the box is reduced as you drill down. Since the fourth box can't get much smaller, there's a slight color difference. See that?

Opportunities to Continue Exploring Once I select a poem, I can not only read the poem, but also see the poet's picture, learn more about the poet, and view other poems by that poet.

Things I would do differently

  • Make each green box clickable. Right now you have to click on the text within the box. Simply clicking in the green space does nothing.
  • Provide a word count for each poem. I was looking for a short poem to write in a birthday card. It's hard to tell how long the poem is before you click and are taken away.
  • Auto-fill the Poetry Tool drop downs (see right column) once you get to the poem detail page. Clicking the back button is easier than selecting items in the form again. But if they were auto-filled, I could navigate easily from the detail page.
  • Widgets! The Poetry Tool would be a very cool thing to add to a blog, Facebook page, Mac Dashboard, etc.