Math-Drills.com received its most recent design improvement over the weekend. Every once in a while we take a look at the website and try to improve things for our millions of users and to reflect the technology that they are using. For example, about half of our users use Internet Explorer to access the website, and recently we've noticed that most of them have finally upgraded to version 8 or higher which means we can use designs that can be seen in version 8 (but not version 7 or older).
In case you don't see the improvements, just hit refresh and you should see all of the updates. Here, in no particular order are some of the improvements that we made:
- Narrowed the width of the website slightly from 1040 pixels to 1000 pixels. This was mainly for people who still have a smaller monitor and have trouble fitting everything into their screen without zooming or using the horizontal scroll bar.
- Improved the mobile view for people on small screens like Smart Phones. Please try accessing the site on your iPhone or other Smart Phone and let us know what you think.
- Spaced out the worksheet links and enclosed them in boxes to enable easier clicking. Previously, it was kind of hard to click on the "I" worksheets, for example.
- Updated the sub-menu style to look more like the main menu.
- Updated the look of the sidebar links.
- Updated the look of the category titles.
- Moved the sidebar to the right of the screen. Because people generally read left to right, we thought it would be better to have the important stuff (i.e. the worksheets) on the left instead.
- Moved the links to the MathStore and MathsLibres to the sidebar instead of the main menu since they are external links.
- Improved the sharing experience with larger buttons and better functionality.
- Updated some of the color scheme, so everything fits in with the blue theme.
That was quite the long list, but we didn't stop there. You should start seeing some updates on the worksheet pages as well. Some of the improvements above (e.g. width and mobile views are already live). We also took a look at our graphics and decided they needed a bit of a makeover. You may want to explore some of the new graphics such as the one on the bottom of the patterning page:
Or the one on the Dots Math Game page:
Okay, one more... here is the new graphic from the Powers of Ten page:
All of these images are "pinnable" on Pinterest, in fact, we've pre-populated the Pinning dialogue if you use the "Pin" button on our page.
Once we're done with the design improvements, we will, of course, be back to making new math worksheets for the site. If you have any suggestions for new math worksheets or think that an old one needs revision, please let us know.
Enjoy your week!
