Re: A few minor Plone problems

Yishay Mor <yishaym-pAvbn/[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:18:03 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.education.weblabs.webreports.uedesign
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Ken Kahn wrote:

>Hi.
>
>1. Most of the kids don't have email addresses. When registering I said
>to just put something there to indicate that they don't have one in that
>field. 
>
See:
http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=89495&group_id=69492&group_project_id=32300

Also, tell them to delete the e-mail after they've registered, so that 
they get notifications by IM instead.

>2. The kids thought the 'send me a message' button would send themselves
>a message not the person whose page they were visiting.
>
IMHO, it should be a letter icon.

>3. The log in dialog asks for "Name" and most kids thought that their
>full name was required and not their user name.
>
I noticed a cultural variation here. Some sites kids use their real name 
as a username, others they use a cryptic "handle". I wonder why...

>Overall things went very smoothly. And the kids enjoyed it very much.
>
Good to hear!

-- 
**********************************************************************
Yishay Mor
	   http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=4381&4381_0=7303
	   y.mor-xaKI+XbQf9Vaa/[email protected]  Ph +44(0)20 7612 6963 F +44(0)20 7612 6964 
	   AIM,Yahoo: yishaym; Jabber: yishaym-/[email protected]; ICQ: 179772099
	   
	   If this helped you, please take the time to rate the value of this post:
	   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=yishaym
**********************************************************************
celebrating 100 years of excellence in education 
		www.ioe.ac.uk/centenary




-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software.
Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering
advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms.
Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html