Chapter 7. Creating an enhanced editing experience
This chapter covers:
Managing a portal is a bit like owning a B & B. In both cases we want our clients to have a unique experience and for their stay at the site to be as long and useful as possible. But with B & Bs and portals, there’s a catch to capturing customers. What attracts users to your portal may not be the underlying wizardry you’re so proud of; after all, not everyone likes ginger in their blueberry muffins. Most portal visitors aren’t dazzled by the “coolness” of zones, personalization, web parts, or even the web part manager. Users either take those elements for granted or don’t even see them. On the other hand, they do care about and notice the ability to personalize a substantial amount of content and see the same content when they revisit the website.
What else do users feel strongly about? Ease of use is certainly important. This means that use of features should be intuitive and easy. Consider the way that we’ve been editing the web part values throughout this book. How many actions has the user just performed to personalize that web part?
- One: Select the edit item in the dropdown list.
- Two: Open the verbs menu for the web part.
- Three: Select the edit verb.
- Four: Save changes.