Hi Bill,
This looks great. As you realize the "cosmetics" is really very
important in terms of useability, so we really should do a lot more
cleanup along these lines.
I've got a suggestion, that might not take much to implement. Put the
links across the top of the page inside a rectangular table (so we can
space them a bit more compactly) and link the last four directly to
their respective pages. Then it's just one click to get to the class
list page or the scoring page.
This means placing a copy of the form inside the table entry (it will
look huge in the HTML code, but it will take up little screen real
estate to have a button instead of the link). I would leave the
original form (down the page away) as well in case someone wants to
check the directions.
Even the first entries could be made into forms inside a table, with
only the necessary buttons, none of the explanations. That gives a
quick reference when you know what you are doing and which page you
want, while still leaving the explanations on the rest of the page for
those times when you've forgotten exactly how things work.
Eventually we could place the explanations on separate help pages which
are only loaded when we ask for them, but that job is probably a bit
more involved to code. It's probably better to leave that as part of a
(future) general project to upgrade the help mechanism on all pages.
Thanks for getting us started on improving the useability aspects of the professor page.
-- Mike
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