Author: Clicklaw Editor

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A New Look for Clicklaw Wikibooks!

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The logo of Clicklaw Wikibooks

The Clicklaw Wikibooks website gets a new look. The refreshed homepage design, which was launched last week, makes it more user friendly. We’re excited to tell you how we did it and what we changed!

This site hosts plain-language legal publications such as JP Boyd on Family Law and Dial-A-Law. These publications are collaboratively developed and are published and kept up-to-date on a wiki, where they can also be printed and downloaded.

Heuristic evaluation

Last year we had a third-party consultant conducting a heuristic evaluation of the Clicklaw Wikibooks homepage. In other words, a usability expert reviewed the homepage and compared it against accepted usability principles. The result was a set of recommendations comprising editorial updates and “cosmetic” changes to make the site easier to use.

What are the changes?

Here are the highlights of what we did to the homepage design:

  • Brought the site’s styles closer to the Clicklaw website, including the colour scheme
  • Increased the body copy font size to allow better readability on the web (for desktop view)
  • Added in more white space between elements to direct people to and then through different content
  • Rearranged features on the homepage, such as moving the “What is a Clicklaw Wikibook” block to the top page for more visibility
A screenshot of the Clicklaw Wikibooks homepage
A screenshot of the redesigned homepage

Have feedback?

We are always looking for ways to improve our websites. Let us know what you think about the redesigned Clicklaw Wikibooks. Email us at editor@clicklaw.bc.ca.

About Clicklaw Wikibooks

Clicklaw Wikibooks covers various BC legal topics using plain language, so people don’t need legal training to understand them. They are available in print and digitally, and range in size from small booklets to 1,000+ page manuals. They are collaboratively developed in the sense that many different legal professionals and law-related non-profit organizations contribute content and help keep it accurate, while Courthouse Libraries BC manages the platform and helps recruit volunteer authors and reviewers.

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Clicklaw Monthly Roundup: August 2020

New on Clicklaw

We share with you a monthly roundup of changes to Clicklaw’s collection. Here is a summary of updates done in August 2020. We had no updates for July 2020.

Solve Problems

John-Paul Boyd, QC

The new YouTube channel, Five Minute Family Law, is all about family law in British Columbia, Canada. Covering a whole range of family law topics in plain, easy-to-understand language, in short chunks of five minutes or more. This is a good companion resource to the public legal information wiki “JP Boyd on Family Law”.

Find the series on Clicklaw here: https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/global/search?k=fmfl.

Below is the video playlists:

Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society (PLEO)

  • Art Law Talks – Webinar Library (new)
    A series of webinars discussing legal issues relevant to artists and arts organizations across Canada. This web page has a list of recordings, with supporting materials provided when available.
  • Legal Lunch and Learn – Webinar Library (new)
    A series of webinars about legal issues of concern to British Columbia’s non-profit sector. This web page has a list of recordings, with supporting materials provided when available.

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