Squidoo’s New Dashboard Features
Every time I log into Squidoo now I chuckle at whatever saying the new dashboard welcomes me with. I like the dashboard now, and I think it’s a huge improvement over the old one. Since I’m an über special Giant Squid, I get all sorts of fun things like lens labels for organizing my lenses based on category, type (charity or non-charity), or anything I want really, plus other neat stuff. And, I especially like the new features that were added just a few days ago, like lens stats and changing the color of WIP (Work in Progress) lenses to red.
However, there are some things I don’t care too much about. Like, for instance, the position of the new lens stats. I think it’d be much better if they were at the top of the page, so I don’t have to scroll forever to see them. For people with over 400 lenses, this can become quite a chore.
Another new “feature” I’d rather not have is the expanding of lens options (view, edit, delete, stats, etc.) when mousing over. It gets a little hard on the eyes when scrolling over a large list of lenses. Oh well, a lot of people like it and you can’t please everyone I guess. I’d still take the new dashboard over the old one anyday.
I agree on the changing of the view while you mouse-over. I get why they put it in: more lenses fit on the screen. Still it’s quite confusing mouse-action if you do want to click on something that just appeared - and it’s even annoying if you didn’t want to do anything, but everything moved anyhow…
I also agree with the mouseover change. I keep mis-clicking and visually I find it hard to focus when it keeps wiggling.
It took me a few days to accept the whole change as I was so comfortable with where everything was. I like some of the minor changes over the last week like being able to set the default page.