emily wrote:As requested, we have added a link to your recent galleries on the dashboard. In the side navigation section, you can click My Galleries to get to your root gallery, or (recent) to get to your recent galleries.
Enjoy!
-Emily
Emily,
I'm one of those who wrote to you here to tell you I like the changes and why, and I asked for one thing if you could do it. You haven't replied to it but you have a lot on your plate, obviously.
My request had to do with your NOT "underlining" a link to make it more obvious, instead leaving them non-underlined and looking more "cool" which leads to people not realizing they're links. Many major sites still underline important links because they know this, and to them an actual clickthrough (and the customer's ease with finding the link) is more important than looking modern and cool.
Then I saw this post about 'recent' being available to us -- that it was a separate choice and could be seen where we see Galleries.
I figured it wasn't activated on mine. Today, again I looked and again I missed it. Why? Because it looks *parenthetical" to "My Galleries! Why not be clear it's a *separate option* ???
I finally figured it out just now. Color me slow. But I'm not. It has to do with expectations.
AT LEAST, make your links a separate color if coolness is the overriding factor and the underlines look "old-fashioned"...
Links and plain text look the same on mine on this dashboard page. I had never ever clicked on "(recent)" -- the noncapitalized 'r' makes it look even more *parenthetical and descriptive* of "My Galleries" - It looks small and inconsequential, just as if it were some sort of "aside" which is what things in parenthesis are usually meant to be.
Make them equal and then people won't miss them. Make the link "Recent" on the same level -- NO parenthesis!
Same with Dashboard. One goes to the Dashboard, and the other, --seeming parenthetical or explanatory, which it's not -- goes to Settings.
Make them "Dashboard" and "Settings" instead of "(settings)" "Gallery" and "Recent" ...
Links should at least have color changes. They're both gray-black on mine. They look the same. They don't even look like links or different from other text on the page.
As I said, I like the changes otherwise, but please help us out when people are telling you, they feel they don't think they see the changes you've made.
Thanks.