Usability

This code goes in a module (not in template.php).

Is this a generally accepted concept that links on a page should never go to that page itself?

Found this: "No link in a menu should simply reload the page itself"
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/3705.htm

How to do it:

Menu System - Drupal API
http://api.drupal.org/api/group/menu/7

Posted issue: http://drupal.org/node/777086

Related closed issues:

Usability: Hide machine readable name of node type by default. Catch wanted this patch only on the condition of it "not changing the type name automatically apart from on creation."

Make node type visible on editing form by default.

Attached is a custom module that piggybacks on Unique Field and steals most of its other code from username_checkUsername Check.

Commit message: "Working Unique Field AJAX enhancement for node titles. Pretty sweet. It doesn't take away the duplicate warning when you change the title to not be duplicate, but it does change to a green checkmark (courtesy of the username_check module from which I also stole most of the code)."

Below, tales from

I can't believe no one has done this!

Simplify the taxonomy interface for administrators by removing the taxonomy related terms box...

drupal taxonomy hide related terms
drupal form tweaks remove related terms

The commit message upon completion...

"Clean taxonomy term add / edit form by removing related terms and moving parents from the closed advanced fieldset to the open identification fieldset if the vocabulary has already been made hierarchical."

And the code:

It's a common situation– you create a simple view that may do little more than filter on one content type in order to get a listing of press releases or links or recipes.

Sure, you can explain to your client and users that going to "Create content" and clicking press release or link or recipe will, when the post is submitted, get it automatically listed on this Views page. And that's pretty nice. But it's a lot more intuitive if the link to create relevant content were right on the view itself.

Agaric wanted and now has happily found a way to submit a node and get the create new content form immediately.

And there is a module to do that:
http://drupal.org/project/submit_more

(I recall I wanted it as a button to "save and add new" – I still think that would be a superior user interface.)

For a basic, but nice, usability improvement Drupal, for all pages where a form is the center of attention, the first form field that people should type in should have the keyboard focus given to it.

Here's a method for doing it with JQuery: http://www.gerd-riesselmann.net/development/focus-first-form-field-with-jquery

All set to sign the charter of www.worldusabilityday.org when I noticed this:

Live Webcast Will Close World Usability Day 2007 – Download Required in Advance
Posted: 08 November 2007 at 17:19

Please note: you must download the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Software prior to the webcast. We recommend that you download the software well in advance of the webcast. These instructions (.doc) will guide you through the process.