People don’t talk about having last changed their password ‘on 15 July’;
they talk about having changed it ‘two weeks ago’.
Interfaces are usually clearer when they employ the same language as the
people using them.
In pages specific to a service (e.g. dashboard and sub pages) the title
needs to distinguish which service it applies to. This is mainly to give
context to screen reader users who could be managing multiple services.
Implementing this uses template inheritance:
`page_title` includes `per_page_title` includes `service_page_title`
‘GOV.UK Notify’ is inserted into every page title.
Pages that set `service_page_title` get the service name inserted too.
When a table is showing the contents of a CSV file, it should look
something like a spreadsheet.
The minimally skeuomorphic way to do this is by adding row numbers.
This commit doesn’t
- make the row numbers monospace (it’s barely noticeable and doesn’t
reflect what actual spreadsheets do)
- make the first column heading ‘Row’ (again, doesn’t reflect how actual
spreadsheets work, and takes up more valuable space)
This commit modifies the HTML `<title>` tags for all the pages. It makes two
main changes:
- make the title tag match the `<h1>` of the page, for better or worse
- put the service name after the page title, seperated by an en dash, as per
GOV.UK
Banners should always be the first thing on the page.
Because headers already have padding we don’t want to put padding on the
container.
So banners should also have top padding to distance then from the red bar.
They should also sit in the 3/4 column if the page has side navigation. This
commit adds a new template (`withoutnav_template.html`) which extends
`admin_template.html`. All views then extend one or the other, never the
`admin_template.html` directly. This means that `admin_template.html` doesn’t
have to make decisions about where the flash messages are displayed.
Submit form was
- a confusing name in itself
- not descriptive, because it also has an optional ‘back’ link
This commit also puts this component in as many pages as possible, stripping
out any hard-coded buttons and links.
It replaces any usage of buttons for ‘back’, because these are links, not
buttons (ie they don’t change any data).
