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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Why have the author set ‘mode’? What’s the point of this, and if we need it can we not detect it? What happens if I forget to set it back? Couldn’t this be a global setting?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With the connector pages, do we need to have the options for back / next buttons stuff on each page, or are there global / automatic settings we could make?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is a pain when buttons are turned off to quickly get to the page I want to get to – so If I add a new page, I can’t navigate to it to check it’s how I want it, because the buttons suddenly disappear.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can see the value in the connectors, but we need to make this easy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seriously, when we built toolkits the mantra in the office was (honestly) ‘f*ckwit simple’. It meant that we created tools that create relatively simple content. But it means people can use it. That guiding principle has got us a long way, and means that people can easily create content – that is what people like about toolkits. We need to sanity check all the new features against that mantra. If it isn’t ‘f*ckwit simple’ it may belong in another tool. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Even if people don’t use the more advanced features, seeing them, and realising they don’t know what to do with them undermines the simplicity and usability elsewhere – I think people should very quickly feel at home with all the functionality, and not feel that only a subset of it is appropriate for them: by implication those users feel, well, a bit like f*ckwits, and that’s not what we want to say. We want to say ‘this is easy’ and we want people to think ’this is brilliant, I can do this’. There are other tools for more advanced users.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What is display text? This is another one that we need to have a think about: I’m not sure what it does having just played around with it for a few minutes. If I don’t know what something does after playing around with it for a few minutes, neither will a great many other people. Remember the mantra.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can everyone play around with the connectors and can we have some debate about this please?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>