Usability, Experience, and Progress Study/Notes/Stephen

Parul's Notes

writer/blogger - smoothie company unemployed. writing a novel of my own - historical romance.
going to school - studying art, junior college
learn by example - take a look at the hypertext above.
copying external link from one above - has not use (or seen?) the toolbar
proofread in edit box - no immediate preview
changing his written text to work within the syntax for his link. easier to do that than to link?
see if the previous author of the article. copy + paste.
after being showed the toolbar, he still copies by example.
mimic what the coding, looking for shortcuts
uses cheat sheet to figure out refernce (over button). likes seeing examples?
cheat sheet on references - page text - look at copy!
at this point i don't know what it's asking me to do. i can see what it's telling me to do.
now it doesn't tell me what to do.
references - FAIL
that's a lot of hypertext information that makes my eyes dance all over the screen.
that's enough to make me say i don't know what i'm doing at this point.
right column/left column photos + templates + infoboxes