Problems: a) On long and element-rich sites, it is almost impossible to maintain the overview in the editor. Everything looks the same. b) All Elements that actually can not be edited in the Form-Editor, are not shown there too. c) After the creation of a new element, the elements need to be searched and selected again to edit it. d) All user-interface-elements are located on the left, except "Save" & "Cancel". If an error occurs the buttons are often out of view... scrolling to the right border of the page... Solutions: a) - The elements should be formated by default as (Titel, Headlines ...) - The left border of a screen is a very important place for user-orientation. In the form-editor this place is used for the always same-looking delete-/edit-buttons. I recommend to show first the more significant name of the element. - "valing" the content of a tag "top" as the name of an element, to enhance the ease and the speed of comparing element-names with its content. b) - These non shown elements (Images / Assets ...) are very important for the orientation. - All content-elements should be shown relative to their position in the document. All elements should be deletable and editable in a form as source xml / xhtml. c) - It would be nice, when elements could be directly editable after their creation. (it enhances the working-speed with this form-editor enormously) - eventually it would be nice to jump directly to this element with anchors... then it would eventually also make sense to give a short summary on the top of the page (i.e. of all the headlines) with anchors to the related parts on the page. d) - Align the buttons left.
Jann Forrer wrote > Problems: > a) > On long and element-rich sites, it is almost impossible > to maintain the overview in the editor. Everything looks > the same. +1 I already tried some small modifications e.g. to differ the color of the three rows which have different functionality (interface elements edit/delete, node name,content). > b) > All Elements that actually can not be edited in the > Form-Editor, are not shown there too. And that together with a) make the orientation within the document very difficult if you work in the form-editor. > [ ... ] > > b) > - These non shown elements (Images / Assets ...) are very > important for the orientation. > - All content-elements should be shown relative to their > position in the document. All elements should > be deletable and editable in a form as source xml / xhtml. > I am not sure whether it is a good idea that all element have to be deletable and editable but they ceratainly should be shown relativ to ther position in the document which certailny would ease the orientation within the document. > c) > - It would be nice, when elements could be directly > editable after their creation. (it enhances the > working-speed with this form-editor enormously) > - eventually it would be nice to jump directly to this > element with anchors... then it would eventually > also make sense to give a short summary on the top > of the page (i.e. of all the headlines) with anchors > to the related parts on the page. > +1 Jann