Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
That may possibly be the coolest avatar in the history of the Yijing.
Apparently, seasoned I Ching diviners here do appreciate Clarity's free reading. However, I can quite well understand why Hilary wants something different, as there are several usability problems with it:
- Beginners need to read the "manual" first, and "learn" to use it. Many people don't have the patience for that on the internet. If it's designed more clearly, with just the relevant text, more people will start to use it. It's not self-explanatory as it is now.
- You can't link to a particular reading, to show it to others, on a forum, for instance.
- You can't easily save a reading for future reference, like into a journal. If you'd want to copy the consultation text, you'd need to copy two pages of text, and find some way to include the hexagrams. Then, there is a lot of irrelevant text there. This is way too cumbersome for most people.
- Some people feel more connected to an online oracle when it's not just one click on a button that produces the results, but six clicks that build the hexagram. It's more of a ritual.
- Having two pages in one, with two vertical scrollbars, is a hurdle to many people. Many only use their mouse wheel to scroll up and down, which doesn't work very well with these two framed pages. I haven't tested it, but I think this may be almost impossible to use on a mobile device.
What do you mean, that it's constructed in one step? It's constructed in 6 steps (and I hadn't seen that elsewhere at the time I was making this).it would be great that the hex will be constructed in 6 steps and not one as in Ewald's site.
I have absolutely no objection to that.I must confess :bag: that I had this thought: If I'd like ewald's style, I'd go directly to ewald's site. Maybe just a link to his website would be enough then?
Yes, I do mean your avatar. Good worm. Have you done any other hexagrams?Not sure if you are referring to my avatar or not, but if you ARE... You should see the shirt I have with that on it too! I made the design and someone I know put it on a shirt for me. Favorite shirt ever! Those worms, tho we do not want to deal and look at them because they are scary sometimes, we must do it anyways! -18
Ack, see what you mean, will fix that, thanks. (Neat that it happens with a repeated-trigram hexagram.)A trivial point but I noticed that the text of 51 is entered twice.
Not particularly, or not directly. Since the online reading is an entry point for a lot of people who go on from there to learn more, if you believe it's a good idea for more people to get to know Yi (which I do, oddly enough), it follows that more people using the online reading is a good idea. And more people finding it usable, intelligible, approachable.why does the online casting tool need to be designed especially for people who are too impatient to figure out how to cast a hexagram ? Why is just 'more people using it' a good idea ? Does that make the site more money ?
Or it might not.Could mean SR just ends up with more people who don't want to know how to cast a hexagram zipping straight over there to get other people tell them what it means because they really don't have the time to think about it.
Because the aim of the exercise is actually to make a more immediately useful, usable, memorable reading. People here who regularly use the reading might have ideas for what would make their experience better. It would be nice to be able to have someone ask for something and just go ahead and provide it.If the object is to increase traffic, I get that...its a business afterall...but why consult existing members about it if the aim of the exersize is really just 'more people using it'
But maybe if you cast your mind far, far back into the mists of history, you will remember there might have been a time when you didn't know what 57.6 said and what it changed to without looking it up.Do we need to link to readings on the forum ? I don't need to see someones reading drawn in lines, they can just write it like this for example 57.6.
Happily, Ewald is almost certainly capable of designing a page in more than one style. Besides, I already link to his website.I must confess :bag: that I had this thought: If I'd like ewald's style, I'd go directly to ewald's site. Maybe just a link to his website would be enough then?
She meant that it's constructed in 6 steps on your site and one step here. Parsing issues.What do you mean, that it's constructed in one step? It's constructed in 6 steps (and I hadn't seen that elsewhere at the time I was making this).
She certainly does. (Though with the Legge as a choice, and the option to add others later, remember.)However, I think Hilary wants to have her own I Ching text in the online reading.
Also, I have no clue about visual design at all - no good at visualising things - and I'm
Any suggestions for how it should look? What would you like to click on to cast? Just an old-fashioned button? An image of something?
What do you mean, that it's constructed in one step? It's constructed in 6 steps (and I hadn't seen that elsewhere at the time I was making this).
A PDF with the reading is not that difficult for me to make. It's just slightly more work than a normal webpage.
Including a date is no problem.
Any suggestions for how it should look? What would you like to click on to cast? Just an old-fashioned button? An image of something?
I see now how I misread your sentence about the number of steps.
So, it's not that you want to have the option on the webpage itself, to save as a PDF, but that it's there on your computer, but doesn't work very well with the current online reading. This problem should be away with the new reading, as it won't be split into 3 frames, but will be on an actual single webpage.
Would it also be handy to have entering something like "43.5 > 34" in a field (or two fields), to display the corresponding I Ching text?
Yes, I do mean your avatar. Good worm. Have you done any other hexagrams?
(I agree, Trojan, the ferret is pretty good, too.)
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).