In particular, please don’t worry too much about colour schemes. The colours are work in progress and may well change as the logo and packaging gets an overhaul. Ultimately you can change the colours if you want to in your Preferences so don’t worry about that. What we’re more interested in is what you think of the structural changes we’re planning to make.<\/p>\n
So here we go. In each case, clicking on the small image will open up a new window with a full size image provided:<\/p>\n
The Welcome screen<\/h3>\n
When you first open VL, we wanted to give the Welcome screen an update and also address one or two big issues that you had been telling us about.<\/p>\n Firstly, the updates. We’re planning to turn the two boxes from VL4 – Create a new service and Open an existing service – into a tab layout. It allows more horizontal space for each box and we don’t think we’re losing much because ultimately you are either creating something new or opening something you have been working on. You don’t do both at the same time. So a tab layout seems a good solution.<\/p>\n You’ll also notice the big box at the top which will give you the latest headlines from the ‘Live’ element of the software. New articles and updates will be shown here so that you always know what the latest information is. If you are connected to the Internet when you use VL, it’ll update. If you aren’t, it’ll show the headlines from the last time you were connected.<\/p>\n The Create a new service box has been re-organised as well. We’re reinstating the tree (because lots of users never found the ‘Show more templates’ function and thought that VL only had 16 templates… the contents of the Frequently Used Services category) and adding extra levels to make the categories and groupings more understandable.<\/p>\n Finally, you have an active lectionary plan but more about that in due course… just a bit of a tease for the moment as to what that might mean!<\/p>\n It looks quite different but there are not many real changes here. The peg people are no more. Your feedback is that they need to join Clippit, Microsoft’s little paper clip friend, on the Great Computer in the Sky and so as is the way of all pixels, they are no more.<\/p>\n The four boxes have been re-organized into a vertical scrollable list. On the right hand side, the space created is going to be used to provide a preview of the service as it is building. There will also be two extra tabs to get service notes and commentary as well as notes and help on particular elements of each service.<\/p>\n The changes here are to address a real problem with the Overview as it stands in VL4. You can’t see the text of your service as it is developing.<\/p>\n The service list (the left hand column of the Detail view) is always tricky because it has to try and do so much. It’s your main advanced control panel for VL so keeping all the tools handy while making it as uncluttered as possible is definitely not easy.<\/p>\n We’ve not made lots of changes but the current grey ellipsis button is becoming a more obvious ‘Options’ button.<\/p>\n When you rollover a particular item, it will tell you how many other alternatives are available so that you know how many choices you have before you click the star.<\/p>\n We’ve also done some re-organising of the Options menu to put the items you use most at the top of the list. The Item wizard is being re-named from ‘Edit or insert item’ to make it more obvious and various other changes are being made to, again, try to clarify functions.<\/p>\n Lastly, in the bottom left there is a little icon key to help people get used to the yellow buttons, what they mean and what they do.<\/p>\n So what do you think? Good or bad? Great or disastrous? Now is your chance to feed into the process before things go too much further down the stream and can’t be changed.<\/p>\n Thanks to all those who have been participating and contributing so far – we appreciate the input. Please do continue to tell us what you think. We are eagerly waiting and listening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The work on the new Visual Liturgy Live continues to take shape. Our development team are making good progress with plans to link the Lectionary planner into your services and a new ‘Manage my readings’ function. More about those later. … Continue reading ![\"Welcome](\"http:\/\/www.vislit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/vllivewelcome.thumbnail.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nThe Service overview<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nDetail view and service list<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTell us what you think<\/h3>\n