Hi all,

 My last post in the forum was to complain about why DNN 5 was such a horrible user-experience. I recently installed DNN7 to my portfolio website. The improved menus and selections has been noticed.  I like it a lot more than the previous versions of 4.x, 5.x and 6.x I installed in the past.  Installation was a no brainer.

The only slight misnomer I have is still with the taxonomy of how Extensions and Modules are not the same words, but really are the same when you work with the UI.   Minor trivial details for sure.

I like that when I am selecting a module to add to a page, that there’s an Apple-ish slider there to greet me rather than some horrendous little pull-down box with just raw names and a cryptic looking menu system to add things to a page.  It makes adding components (modules/extensions) to a page… seamless.  Excellent job to the designer and coders who made this improvement happen.  No more repeated mistakes of adding and deleting modules.  And the click and drag down on to the layout positions (containers) of the page?  Couldn’t get any easier for any CMS.

I would hope in the future maybe that once I have begun to edit a page, it automatically sticks in edit mode and has a little X to cancel like the new slider/installer may have.  It’s a usability issue that just makes editing more easy.  I know there's a checkbox to stay in edit mode, so I know the team went back and forth on the subject, but for me personally, if I'm in Edit Mode, I want to stay there for a while, and not vice versa.  Because sometimes if I have multiple browser tabs open all in edit, I have to repeatedly click on it to stick.

I see a lot more vendors heading to responsive web design, which is awesome.  Hope to see someone put out some cool HTML 5 / CSS 3 capabilities in DNN 7.x series soon.   As Microsoft pushed out their new browser already to the world.

DNN 7 looks great and functions like a professional product now. Keep up the good work and new designs.  I can see the tell-tale signs of user-experience team getting ramped up for the product.  I wish you best of luck.