Add help icon/text to Profile page

[kaigou]

Title:
Add help icon/text to Profile page

Area:
help, profile, usability

Summary:
Add information-icon to colored-strip header lines on Profile page.

Description:
Adding a standard information-icon will direct new users right to the specific FAQ/help page that explains the relevant section of the Profile. For example, the subscription and access sections may not be immediately intuitive to new users, and providing a simple and obvious icon to "learn more about this" will help new users learn without complicating or cluttering the page for familiar users.

'Information icon' from the silk-icon set is viewable at http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/previews/index_abc.png -- it's in the 7th column, 7th icon down.

Poll #1832 Add help icon/text to Profile page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (60.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (10.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (25.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (5.0%)

Comments

[cesy]

I like the information icon, and making things clearer to users is always good. Which FAQ would you link to from which section, though?

[kaigou]

Actually, I have no idea. I can never seem to find anything in the FAQ!

(which is pretty much my entire purpose for asking, seeing how the first two months I was on DW some of its terminology differences made me go, "what the hell IS that, again!?" and then I'd try to figure it out, but was never quite sure whether I was on a page that really applied or if there was a more-applicable info page, and every time I ended up just going, "oh WHATEVER I'll just NOT TOUCH IT and maybe it'll make more sense someday".)

I figure if the idea's acceptable, then maybe commandeer either a dw_faq community or related, to sort and compile the actual list of icon-points (header terms) and related links. Then people could review and say, "that link is adequate but this one is more applicable to the page's use" or, erm, whatever.