Posts Tagged ‘jomsocial’

Top 10 Front-End Usability Mistakes on JomSocial

February 24, 2009

Posted in Joomla by merav | 6 Comments

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Top 10 Front-End Usability Mistakes on JomSocial

I am a huge JomSocial fan. I use it all the time and enjoy almost every minute. But like any website and application JomSocial’s usability too has room for improvement. The mistakes aren’t huge but they are easily fixed. There are empty fields on the profile page. Empty fields on the front end is neither attractive nor necessary. It’s best to show only the populated fields. My links appear on other people’s profiles. If I am logged in and looking at someone’s profile, all my tabs appear at the top of the page. But it makes little sense to mix my stuff [...] read more »

JomSocial Usability Testing Report

November 22, 2008

Posted in Joomla by merav | 1 Comment

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JomSocial Usability Testing Report

JomSocial is a new exciting Joomla extension. Up until now we had to work with Community Builder which is buggy, hard to use and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix (trust me, I’ve done that). From first look at JomSocial, it appears that it’s a HUGE quantum leap from Community Builder, starting from how easy it is to use (without reading the manual!), to the way the profile looks on the front end. It still has some minor bugs and even more minor usability issues, but over all it’s a great start!This is certainly one of the best [...] read more »