[Imc-uk-useability] Re: [imc-uk-tech] publish page - regional and simplifications

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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:28:27 +0000
>From: mish <mish at aktivix.org>  
>Subject: [imc-uk-tech] publish page - regional and 
simplifications  
>To: imc-uk-useability at lists.indymedia.org
>Cc: imc-uk-tech <imc-uk-tech at lists.indymedia.org>
>
>hey folks
>
>I've done a bit more work done on a cambridge publish page.  
So we now
>have a prepublish page
>
>http://mish.dev.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/static/
prepublish.html
>
>And the publish page is
>
>http://mish.dev.indymedia.org.uk/mish/servlet/OpenMir?
do=opensession&sessiontype=cambridgearticle&language=en&to_reg
ion=9&to_uk&nrmediaitems=0&nrftpitems=0
>
>Need to sort out CSS for all this of course
>
>But what do people think about reordering the form a bit?  
I've put
>selection of the number of media items / ftp items on the 
prepublish
>page.  And then I've put the article box directly under the 
abstract box
>and below that there is a link to the contribute button.
>
>Any comments
>

This is great and well overdue as the old pub page sucks. My 
only gripe is that you've carried over the far too short 
media file name boxes. These need to be MUCH wider than the 
paltry 18 chars at present as if you browse in a lengthy path 
and file name - quite common under \My Documents in windoze, 
the name of the file is lost far off the right hand side of 
the present far too short box. This is very important and is 
almost certainly the reason why quite a few posters manage to 
duplicate some pictures in one post as they simply can't see 
the name of the files they've already filled in.
 ------------------
|c:\my documents\my| pictures\GM action\picture1.jpg
 ------------------ ^> from here on is out of box & invisible!

Also I really think it's only fair to warn the punters that 
if they include their email address with @ sign then they're 
likely to be relentlessly hit with spam.

hth