Re-organized the Owlstown Editor
January 16, 2022
I re-organized the Owlstown editor. The new design introduces a bunch of improvements:
- Editing screens are organized in sections
- A special section for "Essentials", information that every academic website should have.
- More intuitive way of editing navigation and adding pages.
- Managing your list of publications is separate from editing the publications page.
- Quicker switching between designs.
I posted a tweet about this update, which has a video of the redesign.
One of the problems fixed by this redesign is the confusion of managing publications and editing the Publications page. As I illustrated in the tweet below, it was unclear whether clicking on the Page tab edits the Publication page or edits a publication. This is also a problem for other lists, such as projects, courses, people, and blog posts.