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Twenty five years making websites
I built my first website in June 1996, and I haven't looked back. Until now of course.
Wagtailtrans and editing page siblings
Enhance the CMS UX experience when using Wagtailtrans by adding action menu buttons to edit translated page siblings.
Don’t show invalid options
Write a little extra code to help your CMS editors navigate the maze of content editing.
The intern test
Design your editing screens to help guide a new editor through the process as much as possible from the start.
Make everything editable
Keep everyone happy by making everything editable, reducing the need for developer input into minor text changes.
Verbose in the code, simple in the UI
Keep your UI field names simple for the CMS editor, whilst protecting against namespace collisions in the code.
Favour consistency over novelty
Ease the cognitive load by reusing familiar patterns.
UX for the CMS user
Tips which I find make life that little bit easier and understandable for CMS editors, and hopefully lead to better websites all round.
Adding footnotes to Wagtail
Adventures in adding a new footnote entity type to the native Wagtail rich text editor, Draftail.