I usually go with business activity - business function with my modal forms (SharePoint) e.g. Records - Declare a new record
-----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Stevio Sent: 20 July 2011 16:46 To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] Modal forms - what to call them? I am working on a CMS and within it, when a user wishes to add a record, I give them two options: 1) Add record - this goes to a new web page with a form. 2) Add record modally - this brings up a modal dialog box containing the form which allows them to add the record without leaving the page they were on (this page lists the current records). This uses jQuery. Once they add the record, the list of records is updated using AJAX. However, what user-friendly descriptive name should I use for the modal forms? I doubt many people know the word modal. Any suggestions? It would be laid out as follows: Add record (pop-up dialog box)? Clicking on 'Add record' takes the user to a new page, while clicking on 'pop-up dialog box' opens the modal form. However, I would like something shorter and simpler than 'pop-up dialog box'. Any thoughts? Thanks, Stephen ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
