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chefry
NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 13:20

  • chefry

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One thing that has always bugged me is the Main Menu

How about having the ability to display an little "NEW" badge in the main menu when you install a new module. It can be a use it yes/no option with the ability to specify the number of days

If you add a new module to your site you want to draw attention to it to get new and old users to try it.



TIA!!!
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xoobaru
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 13:33

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Nothing like rubbing their noses in a good old fashioned press release. Then the search engines could index it and refer more than they otherwise could with inserting the word NEW into the link, or even highlighting it with a bright color.
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chefry
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 14:51

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you can;t highlight in the main menu
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Anonymous
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 15:51

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Sorry, but I can't see any use for this. As a webmaster you want to highlight new posts or content, not modules.

But talking about NEW... I would really like the idea of having an update counter in the browser status bar or tab, like it works in Facebook when having new likes or updates. This could be connected to PM and the Notify system. This would also be great for social media kind of sites build with xoops.
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chefry
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 15:56

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you can't see any use for this??? I've seen this on lots of websites.

If you have a new feature you want to bring attention to it and get people to use it, not let it get lost in the menu and found by accident
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Anonymous
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 16:03

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I am curious, can you show some examples of such sites?
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chefry
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 16:14

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at the moment No, not without searching the internet for some

but that doesn't make me a liar and doesn't make my point a bad one
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xoobaru
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 18:59

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flipse,
Never get a chef angry. They have sharp knives.
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xoobaru
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 19:08

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One thing you could do too is create a two column by X rows html table with href icons in the left of each row and its plain text description to the right and make a custom menu block by copying the html table code to the block. You can make it looks any way you want using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, including a NEW! splash in the icon. Yes you have to manually add new modules to the menu but you just insert a new row (cut/paste/reconfigure) the icon and the href.

Then just disable the main menu altogether. Just an idea.
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Anonymous
Re: NEW!!!

  • 2013/3/23 20:30

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Quote:
Never get a chef angry. They have sharp knives.


Don't worry, I was the teacher of Jackie Chan
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