New Perseus experimental interface preview

[Lisa]

Hello, all,

The Perseus team would like to invite you to preview our new experimental interface. At this writing, the system and design are basic. The entire text delivery system, thousands of lines of code, has been rewritten, and we now have the essentials of the new system ready for testing.

For a preview, please visit the test site here:
http://test.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/index.jsp

If you would like to report problems, make suggestions or comments, or provide any general feedback on the new design, please send e-mail to:

beta-bugs@
perseus.tufts.edu

At this stage, we would appreciate assistance in finding bugs, so provide as much information as possible, including URLs, your system and browser configuration, error messages, and the steps you took prior to discovering the problem.

As always, we welcome suggestions for future improvements. Our short term focus is testing what we now have; this is only a first step. We will rely upon the input of dedicated testers as we rebuild, refine, and improve the system.

For comments or problems with the main site, as always, please contact the Perseus webmaster:

webmaster@
perseus.tufts.edu

Please check our home page for further announcements and links to publications. More news will be forthcoming over the weeks and months ahead.

Best,
Lisa

[Brinestorm]

At first glance and after browsing a few Catullus poems, I must admit that it seems to be an improvement. I will definitely browse more over the next few days and e-mail what comments I may have to the specified address.

Thank you and the team for allowing us, some of Perseus' most ardent patrons, to offer our suggestions.

[annis]

The beta is sometimes a bit flakey, as betas are expected to be, but I look forward to this being the new default interface. It is just worlds more usable, and more attractive, than the current version. When the commentary links are in place I'm likely to use this new version, even with the strange behaviors.

It'll be interesting to see how the dictionary entry selection for passages works out.

[Turpissimus]

It'll be interesting to see how the dictionary entry selection for passages works out.

I must confess to accidently voting in one of those polls, not knowing what I was doing. Perhaps some kind of warning is in order - I didn't realize I was participating in a wikipedia-style enterprise.

The site design is very good though. I notice some of the works have on page commentary.

[rimon-jad]

I like it. Thumbs up!

[mingshey]

I like the new design. Only I wish the change between Greek/Latin and English translation was more comfortable, as in the older design. You can refer to the translation when you are reading the Greek/Latin text, in a column to the right. But, you might know what I'm talking about, the text in the side column is much smaller than the main text(though you can enlarge the general text size in the browser menu) and you might want to set the translation as the main text, and G/L in the side column, and vice versa.

[1%homeless]

Ooh, I see that perseus is starting to work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse. I noticed Zoega's dictionary in XML. Is perseus working with the Germanic Lexicon Project?

[chad]

hi, under the new greek search engine can you limit your search to certain authors like in the old perseus search engine? i can't see how to set that up. thanks

[Kopio]

I really like this new interface....It just might be the best thing since sliced bread

[mingshey]

Look, fellows!
It's updated.

http://test.perseus.tufts.edu

# May 25, 2005: New website design released!

[annis]

Look, fellows!
It's updated.

http://test.perseus.tufts.edu

The introduction to Callimachus is in Latin, but it's spelled in Greek at the moment!

It's nice to see how this is coming along.

[mingshey]

Well, they added the feature I had required, to change focus between the original text and translation.
But they seem to have tried to make the fonts(unicode-precombined) fancy, which only got less legible.

[Carola]

Arrggghhh! and today when I need to look up something the whole Perseus site is off-line! I'll just have to wait patiently.