http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/forum/topic/ui-clarity-request-submit-draft-vs-publish Blogilo Forum » Topic: UI clarity request: Submit: Draft VS. Publish. en-US Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:59:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/forum/search.php http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/forum/topic/ui-clarity-request-submit-draft-vs-publish#post-256 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:49:31 +0000 idupree 256@http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/forum/ <p>The current (1.0.1) dialog that appears when you click Submit looks like this:</p> <p>[ radio buttons: ]<br /> () Publish as an edit of the original entry<br /> () Publish as a new post<br /> -------<br /> [ checkbox: ]<br /> [] Save entry in drafts</p> <p>I hate that last check-box, it took me forever to figure out what it meant!</p> <p>- does it mean in a collection of drafts on my machine, or on the server?</p> <p>- does it mean ALSO save in drafts, in addition to publishing it?</p> <p>- will all my personal copies of it be deleted if I don't check that box?</p> <p>Actually it means, instead of publishing it on your blog for people to read, upload it to the "drafts" section of your blog. Furthermore, whether the version on your disk is closed actually depends only on the NEXT dialog box that comes up, that asks whether you want to close it.</p> <p>I suggest radio-buttons so that both options can be named -- (after all, the other thing in that dialog has radio-buttons because it needs them just as much). Such as:</p> <p>() Publish<br /> () Place in server's "drafts" section</p> <p>and change the other radio-buttons, instead of saying "Publish", say "Upload" or "Submit" (probably "Submit" to be consistent with the name of the button and the title of the dialog-window, because that word there is trying NOT to add any new information).</p> <p>I think "Place in server's "drafts" section" sounds a little awkward, so if you have any better ideas that don't compromise clarity... :) (i.e. it should not cause me to wonder about any of the three questions I mentioned above. And it should be a wording consistent with either a new post, or a re-upload of an old post that was formerly published, or that was formerly a draft, and that is now becoming published or becoming merely a draft...).</p> <p>-Isaac </p>