Hello

I am a brand new XOOPS user, and designer. I've intalled and worked with almost every CMS out there from tiki to mambo to ezpublish and everything in between. Thought I would share a few comments and quibbles that the core team might be interested in. Before I do, let me start by saying that overall, XOOPS has come a long way since I last peeked at it. You folks have really done a superb job. I mean a brilliantly superb job. I am going to switch all my client recommendations to XOOPS starting TODAY.

Now for some comments and quibbles:

1) install was suberb on local windowsXP
best, most seamless I have ever seen. But if I were a less experienced user, the instructions were too spare. You need to more carefully explain things like "then type yoursite.com." You mean to simply visit the site, or points to index.php. This would drive a novice nuts.

2) Admin icons use a painfully small font size
This is my biggest beef. I am 49 years old, with typical eyesight for someone my age. Your Icons appearing at left of admin pages are enormous, and yet the TEXT capitions within them are tiny. So tiny they are barely readable. This is truly bass-akwards. The image means little, and the caption means a lot. I can tell you from having seen the comments of thousands of visitors to most CMS systems, that the inability to read the core stuff is a very common complaint. If your prospect can't read the most important elements, they aren't likely to explore the product further. If whomever is doing these images contacts me, I would be happy to help make these changes.

3) Text editor lacks selectable text for tags
I have rarely seen an editor these days, that could not add tags to selected text. Having to enter the text into a box and press an add button to insert it in-line is just incredibly primitive and counter-intuitive for casual users (and even power users wouldn't love it). Tiki, Mambo, Mediawiki, and MOST popular CMSes will at least add the tags to selected text. This is the first robust product I have encountered that did not in a long while. I KNOW this will annoy almost all my users instantly. I know is is not a particularly difficult javascript to implement. The code could be modeled on that in in mediawiki (pretty straighforward) or tiki (denser and convoluted).

Opps.. gotta scoot. I will add to this later (hope I can edit my posts .

Hello Matted, thanks for your post and observations.

1- Re visit yoursite.com. Not sure which document you refer to here The installation guide concludes with a clickable link to the newly installed website. See HERE

2- Re admin Icons. Again, I checked on my own site just in case this was one of those silly things we all miss, but the hover menus over the module icons display bold clickable fonts that are larger than the other default window fonts on my system. I am not aware we have ever had that come up as a problem before.

3- Text editor. Good point ... and one that is being addressed in future releases of Xoops. We already use a spaw editor that I believe will find its way into the core system.

Thanks for your comments here We are always ready to see those things that we have blindly stumbled over in the past. If I have misunderstood your observations, please replay again.

I know this is your seventh post, but welcome to XOOPS forums!

Richard