dw_suggestions | Entries tagged with site: site menu

Title:
Make logging out a one-step process

Area:
site interface

Summary:
Logging out via the main navigation menu has required a second click for a while (I believe it didn't used to). Logging out via the Navigation Strip doesn't. I suggest making the former like the latter unless you have several open sessions.

Description:
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Poll #8421 Make logging out a one-step process

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
50 (79.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.6%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (17.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

aveleh

Title:
Have extra links to help

Area:
site interface

Summary:
Although there is already a link for "Help" in the header of every site scheme, having more obvious links to finding help can only help users help themselves. Being able to find this link with little effort means that we're more likely to read FAQs or file requests with Support instead of getting distracted.

Description:
I would love to see a "help" or "FAQ" or "support" link in the footer of each site schemed page. I notice that on other sites where I don't know how to find help, I tend to scroll right down to the bottom of each page, since that's a usual place.

I think it would fit best between the "Site Map" and "Make a Suggestion" of the following list, but the exact location isn't part of my suggestion.

Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Diversity Statement
Guiding Principles
Site Map
Make a Suggestion
Open Source

(I'm also editing this suggestion to note that the current location of the Help link is not obvious for users who use certain kinds of accessibility software or who browse with style sheets turned off. Dreamwidth follows good practice and organizes the page so that it displays content first, and then the header, and then the footer. This reduces a lot of scrolling, and I love it. However, it does mean that the Help link isn't as easy to find. Which is what also led me to include the following bit.)

I assume this would be annoying as a separate suggestion, but I'd also like to see a "rel link" to the /support/ page from every page.

Poll #1795 Have extra links to help

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (55.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (13.8%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (27.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

msilverstar

Title:
Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

Area:
UI / navigation

Summary:
Move the current Read menu / Feeds item and link to the Create menu. When reading filters are implemented, add the item back to the Read menu with a link to read feeds.

Description:
The Feeds item on the Read menu currently leads to the Create Feeds / Add Popular Feeds form.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/syn/

This is exceedingly disconcerting, as it doesn't fit with the pattern set by the other menu items: Reading Page / Profile / Tags / Network page (paid users) / Recent Comments. Those are all about viewing content.

There is no Feeds item on the Create menu, and it would make sense to move the current Feeds item to that menu.

When reading filters are implemented, add a Feeds menu item to the Read menu, to link to a reading page containing the user's feeds, like the LJ parameter: show=Y

Poll #1114 Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

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

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Should be implemented as-is.
1 (5.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (5.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (35.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (40.0%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (15.0%)

willow

Title:
Better Site Scheme Menu Organization

Area:
Site Scheme Menu

Summary:
I would like the menu better organized with easy to find links, for Suggestions, Account Info and News.

Description:
I think there should be:

A link for DW's News Pages underneath the site scheme's 'EXPLORE' so that News is easy to find.

A link for DW's Suggestion Generator ALSO underneath the site scheme's 'EXPLORE' so that being able to make suggestions is easy to do.

The CREATE link in the site scheme's drop menus changed to ACCOUNT (or something similar) so that it is better understood that there are links there for profile editing and icon adding and not just creating an entry (and to make it clearer that it does not mean creating a new account (excluding creating a comm)

PS: I'm sure someone's already mentioned that 'Sponsor A User' would be clearer as 'Random Gifts' - since right now it comes across somewhat politically as if someone can sponsor an official community journal like a national, international, or regional organization like the SPCA or similar program relying on donations for hosting.

Poll #1071 Better Site Scheme Menu Organization

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

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Should be implemented as-is.
4 (14.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (17.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
13 (46.4%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (14.3%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (7.1%)

archangelbeth

Title:
Adding Customizable Menu to non-journal "frontpage" pages

Area:
Links: Celerity sidebar, Troposphere... dropdown?

Summary:
Add a section of the menus in the secondary pages (comment pages, the suggest.bml page, etc.) that is customizable by the user the way that their journal appearance is.

Description:
I was egged on by Cesy. O:> We'd love to have a section of the menus (Celerity for me, presumably Troposphere for Cesy) that we could put various links on. E.g., Memories, this Suggest An Improvement page, a LJ page, our favorite webcomics... whatever we might want to refer to while writing a response to someone's post or comment, basically, and don't want to have to go navigate back to the front page of our journals to find. A half-dozen links would probably make me pretty happy.

Downside: requires adding a customizable menu (module?) to however many schemes/styles/whatever these are -- or at least a few of them.

Upside: no one bugs you about putting *their* favorite DW-related link into the default menu, for a good long time! O:>

Possible Upside: if you find a way to track what people put in their customizable menu, and find that a substantial number of them use X link, you can consider putting X link into the default ones, too.

Thanks!

Poll #1053 Adding Customizable Menu to non-journal "frontpage" pages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (63.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.6%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (26.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

archangelbeth

Title:
Add "Memories" link to default beige sidebar

Area:
Navigation via sidebar

Summary:
Add a Memories link to the sidebar that is... Well, I presume it's the default style for reading comments, or looking at random pages. It's beige.

Description:
I often want to make a comment that includes a link to something I found Memorable. With LJ, I use the Dystopian style, scroll up the page, open my Memories link in a new tab, and navigate to the memorable post in question.

With DW, I search the beige sidebar in vain! I remember the link's not there, remember where it *is*, open a tab, type in enough of the URL to auto-complete to my journal page, then click the Memories link, etc.

Could a link to Memories be put somewhere next to Tags, under the Read sidebar-header?

(I honestly do not know if the beige sidebar belongs to a given style; it hasn't changed when I swapped my other styles around, so I presume it's the default. And I don't think anything else in the customize styles page is affecting it.)

Poll #1034 Add "Memories" link to default beige sidebar

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (26.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (26.9%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (42.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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Make logging out a one-step process

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Separate menu items for reading feeds vs. creating feeds

Better Site Scheme Menu Organization

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Add "Memories" link to default beige sidebar

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