10 tips to improve
Joomla’s usability
Sander Potjer
@sanderpotjer
www.sanderpotjer.com
Joomla! World Conference 2014

Sander Potjer
- Love contributing to Joomla
- Company: Perfect Web Team
- Extension: ACL Manager
- sander@sanderpotjer.nl

Sander Potjer
- Love contributing to Joomla
- Company: Perfect Web Team
- Extension: ACL Manager
- sander@sanderpotjer.nl
- Slides: sanderpotjer.com

Joomla
user friendly?

Joomla
user friendly
for us?

Joomla
user friendly
for end-users?

Joomla
gebruiksvriendelijk?

Exercise:
- Login with the provided details

Exercise:
- Login with the provided details
- Publish an article on the homepage
- title
- text
- image (strand.jpg)
- tag (lagotto)

Exercise:
- Login with the provided details
- Publish an article on the homepage
- title
- text
- image (strand.jpg)
- tag (lagotto)
- Logout

Default
Joomla installation
with blogging
sample data

Speed 2x

8:22

Improve the
usability of Joomla
tips 10

Login 1

Keep it Simple2

Joomla
settings 3

Text-editor 4

Site
configuration5

No unnecessary
access 6

Language
overrides 7

Template
overrides 8

CSS /
JavaScript 9

Separate
input 10

Optimized
Joomla installation
with blogging
sample data

Speed 2x

1:29

Look over the
shoulder of the
website user

Usability
testing tips

Task based on
own situation1

Website test,
not !
person test 2

Think out
loud (repeat!)3

Don’t help,
ask questions4

User is
not stupid! 5

Record
the test 6

“Don’t make me think”
- Steve Krug

Bonus:
Template override

File: templates/template-name/html/com_content/form/
edit.php

File: templates/template-name/html/com_content/form/
edit.php

File: templates/template-name/html/com_content/form/
edit.php

Code: https://gist.github.com/sanderpotjer/
5488c2a10dceeee7db7d

Resources:
Joomla Community Magazine article
“Creating an article in Joomla! has never been this easy!”:
http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-sept-2014/item/2293-
creating-an-article-in-joomla-has-never-been-this-easy
Slides, links & code: sanderpotjer.com