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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004 at 12:50 PM |I went into Marqui’s communications management system this morning and played with it for a couple of hours. Right off the bat, I discovered it won’t work with anything but IE-based browsers. It works fine with Maxthon, an IE-based browser.
In trying to load Web Trends, it stated I needed to turn on Javascript and told me how to do it in IE and Netscape 7. I was using Mozilla 1.7.2, which as you know uses the same engine as Netscape. It didn’t like it. Switching over to Maxthon, all worked fine. Folders won’t expand in Mozilla either. However, upon entering the CMS, it does recommend using IE 5.5 or greater for optimum performance. I wanted to see how it worked in Mozilla. You can do a couple of things in Moz, but it’s limiting.
Though the number of IE users is falling, a majority of businesses are still using it. Marqui isn’t the only business whose application best runs on IE.
Aside from that rough start, the CMS interface is clean and simple. I’ve seen some CMS interfaces that would scare users upon first glance. The major tabs (for administrators) include:
* Console
* Web Pages
* Calendar Events
* Media Files
* Control Panel
Easy to figure out which does what. I ran into a problem and support responded quickly—how do I find previously submitted stories (news releases, in this case) because I found a typo in one of the releases? I checked the help file and looked at every folder, tab, and link available. No such luck. I tried signing on as a User and as a Writer, didn’t find the stories there either.
The answer: Calendar Events tab. I assumed this info would be under Web Pages tab thinking it was for all pages including templates. Since the news release was dated July and no events were entered for December, I didn’t see anything in the Calendar when I first looked at it. I’ve submitted a suggestion to clarify this in the help file. It would be helpful to have a list of pages under the Web Pages tab by title because a user may not remember the date an article or release was published.
Once I find the release in the Calendar, editing is a breeze. Just make the change and submit it. Then, the person with approving authority approves it and the release is immediately updated on the Web site.
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3 comments
I’m running Firefox, and I’m not wild about lazy programmers either
http://foo.ca/wp/index.php?p=7122
i dont think you ever design something that works in all the various browsers, I suppose the goal should just be to design something that works enough in the majority of browsers but works best in the standard, which at the moment is IE
Yep this is a bug.
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