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#13 2006-07-10 20:24:53
- Mary
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Re: "New article" button
Now the problem starts: He overwrites the title, the body and the excerpt and hits “save” again
I agree that it’s not intuitive, but overwriting an existing article? That’d happen if you weren’t paying attention. Forms have a “create new” link (and I want to see this for pages as well), so it wouldn’t be a foreign idea for the write tab too.
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Re: "New article" button
but overwriting an existing article?
Yes, it happens, somewhere in your neighbourhood ;o)
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Re: "New article" button
What was it that they say about making software foolproof? I forget…
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Re: "New article" button
I think this is a real problem for new users or even some experienced users. But a “new article” button just looks out of place in current admin interface. I propose to use a little bit javascript: in editing mode, let’s make the default title to be pure text rather than input field , and put an “edit title” link as the switch to input field. Hopefully by this people will be reminded she/he is editing an article.
Another thing is we could add “ title=‘write a new article’ “ into the <a href=”#”> write </a> tab.
>edited the empty link so as to bring back to this page
Last edited by colak (2006-07-11 07:26:40)
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#17 2006-07-11 04:44:46
- Mary
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Re: "New article" button
The first won’t happen, that’s a bad ui choice that would be even more frustrating to use.
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The only thing I see with the Create new link is that a new user may type up their article and click the link thinking it’s like a save button.
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Re: "New article" button
If this problem only really surfaces once one has written an article and wants to “write a new article”, how about putting the link to a fresh write tab in the “article published message” that appears once you’ve saved the message?
doesn’t clog or confuse the interface and pops up exactly when you need it…
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