Site Scheme: More than one way to find it

[archangelbeth]

Title:
Site Scheme: More than one way to find it

Area:
Styles and Site Scheme

Summary:
Making an extra link so people can find their way to Site Scheme when they've forgotten what it's called.

Description:
After forgetting what "site scheme" was called, for the umptyleventh time, and being forced to say, "The beige sidebar thingie" -- despite looking on my styles page -- I realized that it might be a very good thing to have a *link* to the Site Scheme from the Customize styles page.

(Since when I forget "site scheme" as a name, I can't FAQ-search it, and it's something that affects How I View The Site, and Styles affect how *my* pages look...)

I don't mean that the Site Scheme link should be *moved* from its current location, but having a link *also* on the http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/ page would catch both people who expect all the "how the site looks to me" to be on the "select style" (Customize) page, <I>and</I> the people who know better. In Celerity, the Select Journal Style has a nice bit of white-space below Reading Page Title, that the Site Scheme radio-buttons would fit under -- or, probably more attractively, it could go down at the bottom, next to "3. Choose a Page Setup." Maybe something like "4. Site Scheme: Choose how Main Site Pages will appear" and then the radio buttons beneath it. Or a tab or "next" button off of http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options ? "Select Site Scheme"?)

More paths to success, so I don't wind up saying "the beige sidebar thingie" when I mean "the Celerity Site Scheme"!

Poll #4238 Site Scheme: More than one way to find it

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (71.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (25.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[healingmirth]

Could it be a link in the box with the [user]'s current theme preview?

more options:
-customize your theme
-change page layout
- [link to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display]

does the settings page have anchor tags so that you could go to that section?

[cesy]

That sounds sensible to me.

[ninetydegrees]

@archangelbeth and the mods: already suggested and accepted. See http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/321660.html and http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2863.

@healingmirth: I've actually implemented it the way you suggest it and am waiting for a review of my patch. :)

[archangelbeth]

I am not sure I can translate the bug implementation into whether that's what I was hoping for, but yay that there's something addressing it! O:D

[ninetydegrees]

or, probably more attractively, it could go down at the bottom, next to "3. Choose a Page Setup." Maybe something like "4. Site Scheme: Choose how Main Site Pages will appear" and then the radio buttons beneath it.

Exactly like this, except it's a link to the setting and not a duplicate of it.

Also, there's another bug for renaming 'site scheme' to 'site skin' which hopefully will make things a bit clearer.

[archangelbeth]

"Site skin" may work a bit better for me, because I'm familiar with those from MMORPGs, but it's not a huge "Ohhhhh!" kind of revelation, and I don't think it's going to be any clearer to non-MMO players.

I think "Personal page style" and "Site page style" might do better? (Where "style" can be skin, scheme, whatever, so long as it's the same for both.) Put them together, have the little ? button to explain what is which, and that would probably do the trick?

Hooray for placement!