I can admit to being a bit flaky at times, but this takes the cake. While designing the User Interface for TheExpandedUniverse, I wanted to make sure that I had certain functionality always available. These were formulated in my mind as "Things I Had To Make Sure Were There."
- A HOME button - to take users to the start page
- A FIC button - to take users to the browse stories page
- A USERS button - to take users to the browse users page
- A RANDOM button - to send users to a random story
A pretty list, but one that was seriously lacking. After all, TheExpandedUniverse is a site about
WRITING, and all my top navigation links were about reading. In fact, it took a user that had been logged in, 3 page views to actually write a story (Click their name to go to the User Dashboard->Click New Fic to go to the New story page->Write the story).
For what was supposedly the primary functionality of the site, that was fairly well hidden; and as all developers should know: if a user can't find functionality easily, it doesn't exist.
All that means, is that I had to go out and toss up another link to the top navigation. Go look at the site now, you'll see it right there as it says "Write."
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