Re^3: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads

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Re^4: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 23:59 UTC
I'd call the link different ("Page Docs" sounds too much like a category like "Meditations", "Reviews",etc). For instance "Help", "Recently Active Threads Manual", "Legend". And I'd place the link elsewhere. Perhaps next to the colour bar on top, or at the bottom of the page. And I'd make sure that the FAQ points to this help document. I'd say, just doing the latter would be enough. "Need Help??" is a clear link, and stands on its own (not part of the page navigation, nor of the site navigation), so it's quite visible.	[reply]
Re^4: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:22 UTC
I doesn't belong in that list. I had to supersearch to find this thread to find the doc — it's not like it's hard to see, but it's very well camouflaged by being the odd one out in the middle of an otherwise uniform list of things of a completely different type. It needs to be visually distinct. Mockup of a proposed interface: Viewing Nodes As of: <<<< <<< << < Now Mode: `[`Root and Node`\|V]` `[`Switch`]` \| More settings \| How do I use this?? Jump to Discussion \| Questions \| Meditations \| Perl Announcements \| Cool Uses For Perl \| Categorized Questions \| Snippets \| Code Contributions (The mode doodad is a dropdown+button here.) That visually groups together the things that functionally belong together, and makes different things look different. The current look where a list of config options are all visible all the time and are simple links just like the long bunch of in-page anchors following them makes it hard to scan the area for units of functionality. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^5: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:32 UTC
I'd be fine with applying a patch that made these changes.... :-) --- demerphq	[reply]
Re^6: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:39 UTC
Ok. I don't have the time right now, but will do it tonight. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^7: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:43 UTC