Is anybody else really annoyed by the user experience for these poor
distributors right now?
They have to know, first of all, to go down here to the bottom of the page to
log in to the Web site.
I don't feel too bad about that.
They've already got a relationship with the company.
The company has already talked to them, and told them about the Login on the
Web site, and that it's down in the footer.
So, it's not like they're arriving on this Web site, and they have no education,
and don't know where to go to log in.
So, provided that KinetECO is telling the distributors to go to the bottom of
the page to log in, I think we're okay there.
But once you actually go to this Login link, and let's say we log in as Joe,
so log in of Joe, and a Password of 123456, and we Login,
you wind up on this page which shows his profile, and that's not particularly
fabulous. And then up here in the corner, I've got my link for For
Distributors, so that's okay.
But if I want to log out of this Web site, what I have to do is, I have to know
to go down here to Login link, and then click the Log out button.
Now, that's not good at all.
That's, in fact, really, really bad.
It's not obvious at all how I log out of this Web site.
Wouldn't it be nice if I had a Log out button up here in a more obvious position?
And then I could just click the Log out button, rather than having to go back to
that Login link in order to log out of the Web site.
And that is completely possible in Joomla;
we're just going to be a little bit tricky about it.
So, here in the back-end of Joomla,
I'm going to go to Extensions > Module Manager.
I'm looking at the modules on the site side.
If you've been following along with me in these videos, make sure it's not
set to the administrator side, and I'm going to scroll back on down to my login form.
Remember this Login Form? This came with Joomla
by default, and it was available on the right side of the screen, and it just
kind of looked ugly.
So we got rid of it, and we replaced it with the Login link way back a long time ago.
Well, I'm going to resurrect this login form.
I'm going to go ahead and click on this, and
I'm going to switch it back to Published.
I'm going to change the Title to Log Out.
Yes, I'm going to make it say Log Out.
This is the tricky part.
And I'm going to Show that title. I'm going to leave it on the Position of
Right, but here's the tricky part:
rather than leaving this to Public -- in other words, anybody can see this form --
I'm going to switch the Access level to Registered.
So, what does that mean?
That means this box, this box that says Login, will only display when someone is
already logged into the Web site.
And the way the login box normally works; let's just take a look at that really
quick. Switch this back to Public,
and if I just say Save, and I go to my Home page, I have this login box over here on the side.
And if I log in as Joe, with a Password of 123456, and I say Login, once I'm here,
there is a button that says Log out.
So this is what I want to see.
I want to see this button that says Log out,
but I don't want the actual login box to show up at any other point in time.
So, here's the way I get around this. I'm going to log out here real quick.
I am going to set this Access level to Registered,
and that way, the only time the "Login" box is going to show up is when you're
already logged into the Web site, and it's presenting as a Log out button.
I'm also going to need to make sure I switch my Language to English, because
this is only going to be relevant to our distributors for the English side of
things right now, and I can go ahead and say Save & Close.
Now when I go to the front-end of the Web site, and I refresh, I don't have a
login box over here on the side of the screen.
If I scroll on down to the bottom of the page, and I click on Login, I'm able to
log in to the Web site. So I'm going to log in as Joe, Password of 123456,
and once I'm logged in, now over here on the side of the screen, I have my Log out button.
So I can go to my distributors page, and here's my Log Out information.
So what I'm done looking at my distributors page, I can click on Log out, and
very easily log out of the Web site,
but I don't have that login box remaining over here on the side for
everybody else to see.
So that is one step to improving the usability of this Web site.