Re: [agilewiki-wiki] seven levels of users

[Bill la F. <bil...@su...>]

I'm speachless.

[after several minutes...]

Wow!

[on some reflection...]

Hanif,

What you say is most obvious. But let me put it another way. Now that 
you have said it, it is most obvious--and that is always the hallmark of 
genius.

I love the picture, but is it legal to use it?

Bill

P.S. My wife Rupali said to be sure to thank you. :-)

Hanif Babazadeh(CPU) wrote:

> Bill,
> I'm glad that our I have inspired an improvement. I do my best to do 
> it again!  ;)
> First of all, you mentioned that "ease of use" and "intuitiveness" is 
> two of the most important factor for AgileWiki. Though it is hardly 
> tried to achieve these goals, but there are still some minor places 
> that just a new user can see.
>  
> 1. When a user opens the main page: s/he will immediately find himself 
> in the documentation. This was a bit hard for me to figure out!
> Suggestion: Like Yahoo!Mail or GMail, we can put a "very brief and 
> important" information about AgileWiki and then dedicate half of the 
> page to the USER LOGIN. It is the standard way of doing things! (Like 
> having the help menu as the last menu of every GUI application and 
> having "About" as the last item in the Help menu! It is intuitive 
> standard)
> Since the user level 1 (which doesn't need LOGIN) can do some minor 
> things, a LOGIN is provided (resigtration is free, therfore we need a 
> link like "Sign up page" just beneath the User/Password fields in the 
> main page, Like Yahoo!Mail, or GMail).
> A small photo may say a thousand words here! and may make the project 
> more attractive. I have lots of photos but since I'm still new to the 
> project and I avoid asking too much (I want to learn by myself) I 
> still haven't figured out what this project does, therefore I can't 
> choose a picture. But believe me: it's too good to say a thousand 
> words in one small page, rather than introducing 7 levels of users 
> just in the login page!!! Maybe just that AgileWiki does it, but I 
> recommend a more user friendly and funny picture.
>  
> 2. Bill, honestly I'm glad that our discussion led to more complete 
> documentation in the project, but not in the main page. The 
> information that is right now in the main page, should go to somewhere 
> like FAQ under a question: "Who can use AgiliWiki?" there should also 
> be a link for "What is AgileWIki?" and "Why should I register?" in the 
> latter case, different user groups and access controls should be 
> introduced.
> During the lifetime of the project, lots of people have asked you many 
> questions, if you put all of them in a FAQ, you may use another 
> standard pattern for introducing the work.
>  
> I don't like to be verbose, I have created a simple sketch and send it 
> to you....a 1000 words!  ;)
> This image has been created very fast and there may be some missing 
> items but it shows the total idea. Look at the small links in the 
> bottom of the page! And the MOST IMPORTANT PART which occupies almost 
> half of the page is "WHAT IS AGILE WIKI?" This is the main paragraph 
> that attracts a user or make him tired! THe first look is very important!
>  
> And last not: I'm not a web designer! Nor am I a verbose person. I did 
> my best to tell "What a user can expect?" and I'm ready to discuss 
> about everything I said here.
>  
> Have a great weekend,
> --hanif