Re: [E-devel] website maintainers needed

[dan sinclair <zero@perplexity.org>]

Michael Jennings wrote:

> 2.  Unintuitive?
>
> Blake says XSM's editing interface is unintuitive.  I can see some
> room for improvement, but straight HTML in a textarea seems pretty
> intuitive to me, albeit not as user-friendly as it could be.

Just to add to this. I do have access to update the e.org site. For 
various reasons I don't use XSM. Ok, I decided to try, just to put a bit 
of a 'what we're doing' up on e.org today.

So, I log in, click the news page. Ok, hit edit. No, that's just editing 
old posts (of which I can't edit as I guess their owned by other people) 
Ok, that's cool.

Click 'new' that makes sense, make a new post. But then I see, create a new:

html
book	
embed	Embed a page or site inside an XSM page. This uses the IFRAME tag 
and is not fully supported by all browsers.
events	A simple event system that will grow with time
faq	
files	
gallery	
glossary	A glossary page for definitions of terms or abbreviations.
links	
login	A login page for your site, keeps a unified look and saves typing 
the site name
news	A blog-like news page with archives and syndication
previewedfile	
sitemap

At which point I say, what the hell? How do I add a new news item. I 
don't want to add a 'page' or is a news item a page? But that new page 
says it will appear on the side bar.

Maybe I'm missing something. But at a minimum we'll need some 
documentation to tell us how to do the simple things (which currently 
seem a bit difficult).

For now, back out of XSM and no posts to e.org for me.

dan