Dickson, a small but nifty navigation aid is Saq Imtiaz' HoverMenuPlugin (http://tw.lewcid.org/#HoverMenuPlugin|). It prrovides a hovering menu on the edge of the screen for commonly used commands, that scrolls with the page.
Michael --------------------------- On 14 Sep., 01:24, dickon <[email protected]> wrote: > I have posted about the AMBIT project a few times before. AMBIT a > developing therapeutic method of working with young people who have > multiple complex problems (crime, mental health, drugs, family > breakdown, etc). We have trained a number of teams in this method and > the 'manual' (how-to-do-it) is an opensource TW, versions of which can > be found athttp://www.tiddlymanuals.com > > Using TiddlyWeb (and soon TiddlySpace) we can have a number of teams > making local adaptations to 'their' local version of the manual, so it > isn't just a bunch of geezers in an ivory tower telling them how to do > it from afar. > > the workers seem to like working in this way, but we are really trying > to beef up the support from the manual (adding streaming video > examples of "how to do it, etc") and to improve the navigation and the > feel of it. > > This is where I, as a non-expert, am struggling a bit. At a recent > TiddlyChat meeting Paul Downey made some excellent and insightful > comments about the U.I., and how perhaps if we wanted to avoid > 'scaring' non-technical therapists/workers we ought to consider > designing a layout that looked a bit more like what they are used to - > which is notebooks, or reference texts; paper rather than digital > screens. > > It occurred to me that there may be experts out there, who with a few > tweaks could show me stuff to improve the user experience that would > take me hours/years to work out. > > If anyone in this group would like to download a copy of the manual > (http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/imp/tiddlers.wiki) and have a > hack at the style, I would be hugely interested and appreciative. One > possibility would be for me to then circulate different versions to > the various teams who are meant to be checking in to 'their' local > variants of the manual, to see if they have strong preferences for > these over the present version. > > All the best, > Dickon Bevington -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
