Oic, you can create your own account on the labs site.
My thoughts:
- The choices "use the article wizard", "create a draft", "create this
article myself" are a bit confusing. Especially the first two - that's a really unusual distinction that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd expect the choices to be between "I'm a newbie" and "I'm experienced".
- The "create a draft" option seems to just dump you in your sandbox.
I think you need to add a lot of support to make that a useful thing to do (like telling them how to get from "first draft" to "published"
- if there is such a mechanism).
Here's an alternative mechanism:
There are two choices:
- "Help me create an article"
- "Expert mode"
Option 1 takes you to the article wizard (whatever that is...) Option 2 takes you to the "create a draft" (ie sandbox) editor. After you save, there's a button to request assistance in publishing it. That also provides information on how to activate the secret Option 3, which skips the sandbox altogether for future article creation. (Probably a preference somewhere...)
Steve
Great ideas all :). I agree there needs to be more of a distinction in
language, and an absence of support for drafts is something I noticed too. I'm going to email round all the comments to the staffers working on it come Monday morning PST, so keep em coming!