Jeroen Couwmans' tips for account-pages
From: http://jeroencoumans.nl/journal/drupal-user-account-pages
"... That’s just weird and plain bad usability – a page title should be descriptive of the main function of a page.
Anyway, there are ways to override that. Drupal uses a placeholder variable to dynamically determine the page and head title based on the internal path. In your theme, you’ll find something like the following: ..."
Read more11 usability principles for CMS products
Here is an article of interest about CMS usability: 11 usability principles for CMS products, by James Robertson
Lot of great ideas to make Drupal easier to use.
Enjoy.
Read moreDrupal Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
Update: This effort is now combined with the User Interface best practices wiki.
Read moreCompose a guide on 'User Interface best practices'
The following people will set up this guide: Sutharsan, Gaele, Yngve
Tasks:
- Collect existing best practices (d.o, presentations, the web)
- Compose preliminary guide in this wiki
- Create guide as handbook page
Screencasts from other CMSes
In Szeged Usability Sprint I started an initiative to collect best practices from the other CMSes. As videos are quickest and most effective way to give overview of the flows and functionality, I picked to use screencasts for that.
Habari:
http://habariproject.org/
Screencast of the installation and site setup: MOV (20 mb)
Add more to the comments and lets take it from there.
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