All About Oikos

We received a lot of great feedback when we released Oikos V1. While people had plenty to say about what they liked about Oikos, they also had a few improvements that they wanted to see. We were happy to oblige.

The original version was optimized for a 1024 x 768 screen resolution, but would not expand for higher resolutions. What’s more, there were elements that always stayed on the screen (like group navigation and the chat window) which made them easy to find, but they took up valuable screen space when they were not being used.

The new Oikos makes full use of your computer screen, it expands to completely fill your browser window. The bigger your screen, the more you can see.

We also hid the chat window and the group navigation so that when you weren’t using them, they wouldn’t take up space.

Oikos V2 has a header that holds your organization’s logo, and can display your organization’s name if you’d like. The header also contains the buttons that were formerly on the left-hand side of Oikos V1.

The footer for V2 holds everything that pertains to the Oikos member. The far left-hand part of the footer is where we hid the chat feature.

To the right of chat is a menu called MyStuff; it’s where members can access and edit their profile, see their list of friends, check out the groups they belong to, and get a display of everything that happened in Oikos since they last logged in.

The left-hand side of the footer contains the buttons that were formerly on the top-right part of Oikos V1.

Each element of the footer will be explained more in following posts.

V2 allows you to upload any image you’d like to have as the background for your Oikos (or you can use the ones we supply). You can regularly change the background to keep things fresh.

Stay tuned for more of Introduction to Oikos Version 2. We’re really happy with the changes we’ve made, we hope you will be too.