Perfectly stated!
You're also capitalizing on what everyone else is using.  I know the "I 
do it because everyone else does" is a poor excuse, but people see 
"Logout" and they know exactly what that does.  They're used to it.  I 
don't want to make the end-user think. :-)

Eric

Kevin Graeme wrote:

>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
>  
>



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