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Replace style-screenshot with Preview Button
Title:
Replace style-screenshot with Preview Button
Area:
customization, backend
Summary:
On the Select Journal / Customize theme pages, where it says "User's Current Theme", turn the image into a preview button for the user's own style.
Description:
Currently, the image is static and doesn't reflect any changes made in the Wizard, which renders it useless (and worse, potentially confusing) once a user's done any significant color/layout changes in the wizard. Also, there's no way to preview changes without going to a separate browser tag/window and reloading.
Retaining the layout/theme names but with a "preview your style" button makes editing a lot easier, because the user would only have to click on the button to get a pop-up screen (same method/function as when you preview potential styles before selection). This would also alleviate the impression that even when one's done a bunch of changes that one's style is still "what's in that picture".
[Possible add'l benefit of implementation but NOT necessarily part of this suggestion, just something to consider: removing the image could allow for three-column setup in that top-most section, with the left column staying as-is, and the middle column listing layout, theme, and the preview button, and the final column listing the additional options. This (I hope) might also reduce the height of that top-section, which would save a lot of time for smaller-screen users who otherwise have to page-down to get back to the page's content, after every save/reload.]
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
12 (52.2%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (17.4%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (4.3%)
(I have no opinion)
6 (26.1%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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