Accolade 3/Moving Forward

So, I’ve been planning on the release of Accolade 3. Per a few meetings/discussions with NMSU staff and University Communications, about some concerns with Accolade, there will be a few changes in Accolade in version 3. Version 3 should be the last version I will be releasing before I graduate (I graduate in December this year). I would like to see Accolade involved in any NMSU sites that are powered by WordPress when I leave. This whole time I have been developing Accolade, it has been for NMSU as a whole.

In some meetings a few concerns have come up. Mainly having to do with:

• Rotis font features & consistency
• Body font changes, and again, consistency
• And, the previous menu

So, in Accolade 3, I have decided to:

• Turn off Rotis font features being on by default; It is not recommended that you turn it on, since other sites do not use Rotis fonts. This will hurt the overall consistency between sites. Though, I feel, there is plenty of inconsistency to begin with, I think it is a good move to disable Rotis by default. Once NMSU decides to go forward with any Rotis font embedding, Accolade will be ready for the switch.
• Change the body font to Lucida Sans; Again, for consistency.
• Leave the Previous Menu off by default (can be used at your discretion); The previous menu has mixed reactions. Thought breadcrumbs serve as a reverse navigational feature, it is often ignored. So, by default the Previous Menu will be off by default. Though, because it has been found to be useful, it can be used if you choose by enabling it.

These concerns are the only concerns that have to be changed. The rest of Accolade’s features and design will remain untouched, such as fixed width, to-the-top button, and better breadcrumbs. Also, a few new features will be added to Accolade (details coming soon!).

So look forward to Accolade 3 in the near future!