I definitely like the arrangement of that suggested login page, but
I'd suggest going one further. My reasoning is, I believe there's a
bit of a discontinuity that can cause confusion if a new member is
required to start filling in the login fields, but then has to
*change* to continue on to a "separate" form to fill in more
information.
Here's my justification: On almost all websites, the convention is
"one form, one submit button". But the MediaWiki login page has TWO
buttons (in two different parts of the page) for TWO different
functions. I think it might make a lot more sense to have to
separate forms, presented on the same page, but in separate views via
JavaScript -- the same way the various categories of personal
preferences are presented. There could be a view for logging in (and
this would be the default), then two prominent links for either
creating a new account, or retrieving a lost password.
Unfortunately, I know very little about JavaScript. I could probably
whip up a demo if need be, but I can't guarantee it'll be that
pretty, or that I can do it very quickly. ;-)
Dan Carlson
Memory Alpha: A Star Trek WikiWiki
http://www.memory-alpha.org/
On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Phil Boswell wrote:
"Tony Wilson"
<mediawiki(a)redhill.net.au> wrote in
message news:20050628154047.ha07dhqlwxwks08c@pie.arvixe.com...
First thing I always do after a version upgrade
is hack the login
page in
to
something that looks like this:
http://bird.net.au/bird/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin
It isn't pretty, but at least it is easier for new non-geek users to
understand.
Looks pretty enough to me. Why don't you submit something similar
for the
official release?
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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