Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content. The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches. -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com
The robotstxt module is looking for a maintainer. It is a module that is only used by a few people, yet plays an important role for anyone who has a multisite installation where each site needs its own robots.txt. The issue queue has 3 outstanding issues, one of which is a patch that upgrades the module to Drupal 5. -Robert * * * * * Lullabot's First Ever Advanced Workshops Are Here! Drupal API & Module Building - Advanced Drupal Themeing April 9th-13th - Providence, RI Early Bird Discounts Available Now http://www.lullabot.com/training * * * * *
I can take over this. I've already adapted robotstxt to run on our Drupal 5 installations. Robert Douglass wrote:
The robotstxt module is looking for a maintainer. It is a module that is only used by a few people, yet plays an important role for anyone who has a multisite installation where each site needs its own robots.txt. The issue queue has 3 outstanding issues, one of which is a patch that upgrades the module to Drupal 5.
-Robert
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We have a winner! Thanks David. David Strauss wrote:
I can take over this. I've already adapted robotstxt to run on our Drupal 5 installations.
Robert Douglass wrote:
The robotstxt module is looking for a maintainer. It is a module that is only used by a few people, yet plays an important role for anyone who has a multisite installation where each site needs its own robots.txt. The issue queue has 3 outstanding issues, one of which is a patch that upgrades the module to Drupal 5.
-Robert
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Neil Drumm wrote:
Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content.
The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches.
In content creation: # Required field indication doesn't obviously indicate its meaning. # "Submit page" isn't the best title, "Create page" or "Create new page" might be better options. These two have been noted in quite a few usability reviews (including the one I wrote up). The first one is such a trivial change. How many 'experts' saying 'this could be improved' does it take until a patch gets committed. andre
Andre Molnar wrote:
Neil Drumm wrote:
Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content.
The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches.
In content creation:
# Required field indication doesn't obviously indicate its meaning. # "Submit page" isn't the best title, "Create page" or "Create new page" might be better options.
These two have been noted in quite a few usability reviews (including the one I wrote up). The first one is such a trivial change. How many 'experts' saying 'this could be improved' does it take until a patch gets committed.
Is there a patch? If yes, you should add links to this discussion and the relevant documents to its issue. If not, you should at least create an issue, if not issue + patch. Cheers, Gerhard
On 3/10/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard@killesreiter.de> wrote:
Andre Molnar wrote:
Neil Drumm wrote:
Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content.
The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches.
In content creation:
# Required field indication doesn't obviously indicate its meaning. # "Submit page" isn't the best title, "Create page" or "Create new page" might be better options.
These two have been noted in quite a few usability reviews (including the one I wrote up). The first one is such a trivial change. How many 'experts' saying 'this could be improved' does it take until a patch gets committed.
Is there a patch? If yes, you should add links to this discussion and the relevant documents to its issue.
I tried over at http://drupal.org/node/83857 The problem is that there are a few ways of actually accomplishing making required fields looks required and all of them can be supported by some resource on the internet: - Simply use a '*' as we do now - '* required' - '* required' for the first, '*' for the others - '* means required' at the top and/or bottom. -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com
Hi Neil, On 09 Mar 2007, at 08:49, Neil Drumm wrote:
Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content.
The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches.
I looked at some of these videos and they are awesome (despite the fact it sounds as if you're calling from space). There is a lot of value in these, and hopefully people can help translate many of these great suggestions into patches! Good stuff. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
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