Currently our team is using MoinMoin as a wiki for IT and it's so nice. We want to promote to use wiki for end-users because some of them are interested. On the wiki we'll share and edit requirements of aplications, for instance. I think MoinMoin is not the more user-friendy (but I love to use it) that's why we are looking for the best...
I'm developing a Winforms application which has been running for years with an explorer view (TreeView left, screen right). I means that: All the screens have an hierarchy organization All the nodes on TreeView have one and only one screen related. A screen gets activated when a node on treeview gets selected. One of the advantages i...
We developed an asp.net website for one of our customer. We followed our rules and standards while building website. While showing it for customer, he said: it's not user friendly. Are there common rules/standards for developing user friendly website? ...
One of the window dialog of a software I'm working on looks a bit like this : (original screen-shot copied from this coding horror post, other examples available on this SO question) The thing is that none of the options can be removed (those who can have already been), and that they must all be visible at a glance (i.e. no tabs allow...
I like Python, but I don't want to write 10 lines just to get an attribute from an element. Maybe it's just me, but minidom isn't that mini. The code I have to write in order to parse something using it looks a lot like Java code. Is there something that is more user-friendly ? Something with overloaded operators, and which maps element...
Our application displays tons of valuable information to our users in a table. We have a filtering capablity that is based on boolean/logic searches. Even after coaching, users still tend to not understand how to use filters because AND OR > >= etc are foreign to them. This filter is easy for programmers since it is easily translated int...
Developer tools and software typically do not provide solution suggestions in error messages. This makes sense for compilers because they are supposed to tell precisely what went wrong. There are "lint" tools to provide suggestions, but AFAIK, few developers use lint tools regularly or even at all. There is a large set of developer...
Simple question...I've noticed several large sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc) have ditched the idea of requiring new registrants to confirm their new password by typing it again. Balancing usability and error-prevention effectiveness...is it better to require confirmation or not? ...
Hello all i like to build desktop application , that will be must user friendly in view what i mean is that the look and feel will be natural in the way the user used to see windows apps . and this toolkit/framework to be as much as possible easy fast to develop from the developer side in c++ . ...
What techniques can I use to always display user friendly error messages? I guess I'm looking for programming, testing, and management techniques that produce user friendly messages. ...
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" value="Phone #" onfocus="value=''"> I've got two problems here. The main one is I would like the helper text (in this case "Phone Number") to be a different color then the inputted text from the user, to make it easier for the user to differentiate between filled and unfilled fields. The seco...
Hi , I am working Joomla 1.5 . I am unaware of how to set user-friendly Urls to the site in Joomla1.5. Give suggestions for keeping User-Friendly urls ... I have changed the configuration for SEO as yes to apache mod_rewrite and Search engine friendly Urls .It changes the url as http://localhost/joomla/Joomla_1.5.7/publicationsform...
The home page of this site will have basically a 3 column layout. I can create these as either content or blocks. I like using content because its easy for the user to understand, they login to the site, they browse to the page they want to edit, they click edit, but with blocks they have to go into Administer > Blocks etc Any suggesti...
Given a scenario in a web application where the User has to do X before they can proceed to Y, but where the link for Y is always available, we are currently discussing two ways of redirecting the user if they try to navigate to page Y: Display page Y with a message and a link back to X. Redirect to X automatically but display a an err...
I read the other password recovery questions on SO and it seems that most people consider sending a password recovery link that can be used only once and expires after a couple of days to be most secure. Now my question, (I know it is subjective, but I am looking for input that you may have received from your users) Is this also decent...
Different component in my system each have specific namespaces for their errors. Websites communicates with theses subsystem and receives errors from them that I want to log (raw log of the error). When an error occurs, I also want to show to the user an error message that he can understand (the message will be simpler than the orig...
If its not a number, a letter or F-key, how do i tell the user which button to press, without using any images? Any ideas? I've got only bad ones. ...
Simple question What is better: http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html or http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456 As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which i...
Hi, I'm creating a piece of software (written in C#, will be a windows application) and I ran into this problem- I've got a set of variables, and I need to allow the user to define a wide range of mathematical functions on those variables. But my users don't necessarily have to have any prior knowledge about programming. The options ...