On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Phillip Smith wrote:
> I've seen "Admins" that are also Editors toggle between editing,
> creating categories, etc. So if Admin sub-items moved away from the
> easily accessible sidebar navigation, it would be good to think
> about moving some of those items to the sidebar (or somewhere
> accessible), e.g.: Categories, Keywords, Contributors, etc.
>
> Maybe the real "Admin" stuff -- users, sites, destinations, etc. --
> could be moved away.
Yes. Or optionally allow the creation of contributors and categories
from within a story, as is done for keywords. Then you wouldn't need
the admin interface for editors.
>> Regarding the similar look of desks and edit, I think a different
>> background color between them could help a lot. I think in the
>> long term, a different layout might be better, but I'm not sure at
>> the moment how we'd accomplish that.
>
> Not so sure a colour change will do it.
No, there need to be other queues, since colorblindness is so common.
Best,
David
> I've seen "Admins" that are also Editors toggle between editing,
> creating categories, etc. So if Admin sub-items moved away from the
> easily accessible sidebar navigation, it would be good to think
> about moving some of those items to the sidebar (or somewhere
> accessible), e.g.: Categories, Keywords, Contributors, etc.
>
> Maybe the real "Admin" stuff -- users, sites, destinations, etc. --
> could be moved away.
Yes. Or optionally allow the creation of contributors and categories
from within a story, as is done for keywords. Then you wouldn't need
the admin interface for editors.
>> Regarding the similar look of desks and edit, I think a different
>> background color between them could help a lot. I think in the
>> long term, a different layout might be better, but I'm not sure at
>> the moment how we'd accomplish that.
>
> Not so sure a colour change will do it.
No, there need to be other queues, since colorblindness is so common.
Best,
David