Email address: t.e.moore.phd@gmail.com

Phone: +1-301-286-5236

1. Support for submission of posts by email (without garbling the email by stripping single carriage returns).
2. Notification emails that carry the same information as RSS feed items (for the most recent change).
3. A "Save and Continue Editing" button to complement "Save Changes". This would be very helpful with real time blogging/notetaking.
4. A "mouseover" menu for images like that for file attachments, offering "download" and "replace".
5. Drag and drop image and attachment uploads to the cursor from within the editor.
6. A "minor edit" checkbox that would prevent notification of such edits.
7. Image dimension wildcard (constant aspect, as in image 5823@300x* would put the correct height in place of *.
8. Superscripts (^) and subscripts (_), like E=mc^2 or µ_o = 4π x 10^-7
9. Tag to add time/date stamp to edits (like for posts).
10. User option to edit page names with link updates.

Admin Wishlist:

1. Test with graphics recognition for posting or editing when open to prevent automated inputs (spam). See figure illustrating a simple solution implemented on many blog sites.
2. Support for user account creation and maintainance (when permitted by the admin).
3. Insert Comments header in all pages by default (make user delete it). Provide a date sort function for date stamped posts.
4. ProjectForum software update notifications.

General Impressions

10 Jan 2006: After a few months of diverse forum operations ranging from management groups to technical groups to family groups, here are some impressions:

Users like the idea of being able to post comments and receive feedback replies. In some cases this takes off into a flurry of discussion. Users are very leery of editing because it implies more knowledge than they have when they first come to the site, and they don't want to embarrass themselves.

Finding things on the site is perhaps the biggest problem reported by users. They don't seem to quickly discover either the Find function or the list of recent changes, even when they are prominently listed in the navigation column of every page. They feel the need for a TOC that doesn't generally exist, but can be provided on a page by page basis. Might be useful to default to a TOC when a page exceeds a screenful.

Users are accustomed to checking their email, but most are not accustomed to news-reading in general, or to frequently updated sites they need to check in on periodically. They react negatively to notification emails, in part because they don't tell them where to find the changes, and they pick up slowly on but appreciate being able to turn down their frequency or stop emails. That could be more convenient by far, because it involves remembering a precise email address.

Guidelines That Need Better Posting on Standard Help Page:

1. Get familiar with the forum and participate in the discussions by posting. Replies to your post will be notified as changes so you can track them.
2. Reduce the email glut! Any email destined for group discussion or response can more effectively be placed on it's own page as a discussion. If urgent, a pointer/URL to the posted item should be sent by regular email. In this way, any back and forth commentary done with "reply all" can be contained and limited to the forum page where it can be studied by all.
3. Create a dedicated new page whenever extended discussion is likely.
4. Important things to know about this site:

• It's new, but you can get help. Go to the help page link at upper right button in nav. column.
• We can customize it to our tastes. Let us know what you'd like.
• You can upload files as attachments, of any type.
• All prior versions of pages are kept and can be accessed with the "versions" link at bottom right.
• You can make your own pages using the links provided top and bottom of all pages. If you want a page renamed while preserving links to it, ask the group admin to do that (see Help).
• A new page is created when you create a link by enclosing any name you like in square brackets.
• To make square brackets appear, [[double them]].
• All pages and attachments are on a server that is backed up daily.
• All pages can be exported to printable formats.