Site usability

I LOVE the site.....great idea, I'll definitely use it.
However....
I'd like to see it be a little more intuitive as far as "where do I go, to edit that trip I just did?" Perhaps adding a link to "My Trips" or something, in the right-hand Naviate box.

Also -- I don't recall ever adding my home town to my map/itinerary in TripBuilder, and yet it shows on my map, which I also have on my Google home page (that's how I found you). I'd like to delete my home town from from the map, as that just adds a big ol' leg that I don't need to see on the map. I've tried deleting it from the trip Builder, but it keeps coming back.

Love it -- I think I'll use this rather than my other blog, to document my trip.

Oh -- and maybe you could creaete a separate forum or some such for site suggestions -- I feel weird about posting this on the general boards.

written by

spoons on March 29, 2007

Yeah, there are a few things that just aren't that intuitive yet. And plenty of things that aren't discoverable enough for anybody to ever find. Adding little "What Next?" links in a few key spots (like you suggest) might do the trick.

I think I know what's up with your over-Denver'd blog map. The itinerary maps show every waypoint and blog entry for a given trip. Since you've got a post written in Denver attached to your trip, it's wanting to include it in the itinerary. Worse for your current situation, it gives more weight to blog entries with text when it decides where to center the map and how far to zoom in.

So, here are your options:

1. You could create another little blog with just that one entry in it. That would give the result you're looking for, but might leave your stuff a bit messy in the long term.

2. You could fly to Paris and write a bunch of entries from there. This would have the two-fold effect of (a.) distracting you in a sea of quiche, espresso and tiny little beers to the point where you forget about the crappy website that has your map shifted off to the side, and (b.) convincing said crappy website's map drawing algorithm that you are indeed in Europe so that it centers and zooms your map correctly.

Personally, I'd go for option 2.

Oh, there is actually a reason you can't remove the Denver waypoint from your map using the Map Builder tool. Since that tool doesn't give any real indication whether a city in your itinerary is just a waypoint or a blog entry that took you 4 hours to write, I figured that it would be best not to be too cavelier about deleting things from there. I'd rather have to give a few people instructions on how to go in and delete a blog entry by hand than have to stay up all night resurrecting an inadvertently deleted, yet important post!

Thanks again for the feedback. Have a great time in Europe!

Jason

written by

Jason Kester on March 30, 2007

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