Form Based Editing of Page areas instead of Green Bubbles
Allow users to edit pages by showing a form with all of the fields as fields ready to go, instead of the preview pane with the green bubbles.
4 comments
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Rick
commented
I have to agree with Caroline. The edit bubbles, and editable area highlights are more user friendly.
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caroline metzler commented
I like the bubbles! They make editable areas obvious, and are less "table-like".
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Adminemil
(Admin, PageLime) commented
There's two challenges here:
1. Without live preview, it's tough to know what the page will look like before publishing.
2. If there are more than five or six fields, it starts looking like a very long form, and it's hard for people to figure out which field maps to what.Overall this is not a user-experience path we're satisfied with. We would prefer to find a way to make the in-page / inline editing more user friendly instead.
Chris - we are planning a feature called "shared regions", where you can tag areas with a class "cms-shared", in which case, PageLime scans the entire site for areas with the same ID and that class, and publishes all of them. Though, ideally for a scenario where a region is shared, you should use our include handling system:
http://blog.pagelime.com/2009/09/16/new-labs-feature-auto-publish-server-side-includes/ -
chris
commented
I like the idea. Maybe even showing the fields (editable regions) of multiple pages at once. This way you can edit a multiple page titles for example at the same time.