It's funny, but I knew Jim would be able to run with this and cover
nearly the same exact points as I would.

IMO, this is one of the situations where the rules of grammar are
secondary or at least bendable. If it has to be an icon and label, and
it has to mention the CMS as what is being logged out of, I would
simply have "CMS Logout". The best strictly grammatical phrasing, as
Jim has said, is "Log out of the CMS" but that's so unweildy. I'm
comfortable with an ambiguous fragment where Logout is effectively
both noun and verb.

If you are designing this and have this control, I would recommend
just using the word "logout" either as a button or hypertext link. If
there are two contexts that it could apply to (account and cms) then I
would provide the context through other means like grouping, color,
etc. "Logout" in a cluster of CMS controls is understandable if the
interface designer has done a good job of differentiating those
controls.

-Kevin


On 5/4/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes! and actually what I am looking at does not, to its credit, say
> "click here." I was trying to make it clear where we were. I am
> looking at an icon next to which is the label "logout of the foo". And
> no, the text is not clickable, I don't think. So you would just put
> "exit foo"? Preferably on the icon?
> 
> thanks more
> Dana

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