Meet our blog designer, Sabrina Scott, who says: “I was very excited to work on this site, because it is meant to be very interactive and fluid, not set in stone.”

She has lots of sites to compare ours with, as well as AGO experience. Now doing her Masters in Environmental Studies at York University, Sabrina began designing websites 10 years ago, and has done various new media and education contracts for the AGO over the last three years.

We have a large and diverse volunteer community. That’s why Sabrina’s big priority was to make our blog user-friendly, and open to change as we work with it and see ways to improve it.

“We want people to find it easy to use,” she says. “We hope it will be a rewarding way to develop stronger connections with each other.”

The blog will become truly interactive early in 2013, when all users will be able to post their own comments and material. It has been designed, though, to be user-friendly right from the start, with features like these:

• the same easy-to-remember user name and password for all of us
• a cheerful navigation panel, written in English not tech-talk — that’s the menu down the right-hand side of every page, which we’ll use to make our way around the site, finding the things that we each want to find
• the “How to use this site” page, which will be frequently updated to reflect user feedback

That How-to page is a good example of Sabrina’s other main point: the site is open to change. “We want feedback!” she says. “This blog is a communal project. User experience and suggestions will guide how the blog keeps evolving.”

And how do you offer your feedback? Click on the heading “How To Use This Site,” which you’ll find at the top of the menu to the right. Once you’re on that page, scroll to the bottom. That’s where you’ll see the email address for feedback: [email protected].