Buttons and Boxes and Forms Redux
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In November last year I wrote a post called Buttons and Boxes and Forms in which I ranted about the design of Movable Type’s comment submission form and proposed some changes. The post drew some excellent comments, and with the help of those who followed the thread I was able to get the comment form looking and acting exactly how I thought it should.
It seems our collective thinking paid off. I got a letter from Mena Trott last week in which she wrote
Just wanted to let you know that we’ll be updating the default comment form layout based on the suggestions you made in your weblog post, “Buttons and Boxes and Forms.” I don’t think we’ve been ever happy with the layout we slapped on and needed a nudge from a user to make the change :)
Now I don’t know about you, but I’m honoured out of all proportion to the size of the contribution. Thanks, Mena – and best o’ luck to you and Ben with the new version.
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2003.01.11 (Sat) • 15:27
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Posted by resonance 2003.01.11, 16:01
Jeremy—now that’s props! Congrats!
Posted by nick 2003.01.11, 16:40
ha! one step ahead, already stole it for my design-in-progress. except for some reason it wouldn’t work right, so i changed it a little. you, sir, are often my inspiration.
Posted by Chris 2003.01.11, 17:38
Cool beans!
Posted by john 2003.01.11, 22:08
Funny, employing your comment form suggestions is the next item on my redesign list. Congrats on the props!
Posted by tomas 2003.01.11, 23:00
Wow, cool!
Posted by vis10n 2003.01.12, 05:26
Congrats, man… it was a fun thread to participate it: thanks for making the forum possible with your attentive post.
Posted by Jake 2003.01.12, 14:04
Yeah I went ahead and simplified it on my blog by getting rid of the Forget personal info and the Preview button and I changed the wording a bit and put in a line about only hitting the button once and no spam and that solved most of my usablity problems with my MT comments.
Posted by tristan 2003.01.12, 14:58
congrats dude, heh, i can’t think of anything more shrugs
Posted by Jesper 2003.01.16, 08:06
Yay. I was the user who tipped them off, by the way. Proof, living proof.
w00t.
Posted by jh 2003.01.16, 12:19
Jesper — Thanks × 10^4 :)
Posted by Jesper 2003.01.16, 18:26
Hey buddy, you’re welcome. :D
Posted by victor 2003.02.14, 17:29
Well, it seems you actually made it. I just received a newsletter announcing the 2.6 release, and you are credited with the improvement.
Posted by jh 2003.02.14, 23:53
I’m just the host on this particular page —- the whole party came up with that one. Thanks to everyone for all the tweaking.
Posted by Qext 2003.12.19, 22:52
How is it work?
Posted by Nat 2004.04.28, 08:48
Everything changes as times goes by… This year our company staff is thinking over the design of new buttons that would match Windows XP style.
Posted by Nathan 2005.05.25, 00:04
You know? It looks really cool. But I don’t know how to do this. I was wondering if you would show me how… You’ve got my email.
~Nathan
Posted by HTML Guy 2006.06.10, 09:51
Major props!
and i think the xp-friendly buttons would be a cool addition, accessible to the many windows users out there.
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