1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Is anybody else really annoyed by the user experience for these poor 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,000 distributors right now? 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 They have to know, first of all, to go down here to the bottom of the page to 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 log in to the Web site. 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I don't feel too bad about that. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 They've already got a relationship with the company. 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 The company has already talked to them, and told them about the Login on the 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Web site, and that it's down in the footer. 9 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 So, it's not like they're arriving on this Web site, and they have no education, 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 and don't know where to go to log in. 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 So, provided that KinetECO is telling the distributors to go to the bottom of 12 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 the page to log in, I think we're okay there. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 But once you actually go to this Login link, and let's say we log in as Joe, 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 so log in of Joe, and a Password of 123456, and we Login, 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 you wind up on this page which shows his profile, and that's not particularly 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 fabulous. And then up here in the corner, I've got my link for For 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Distributors, so that's okay. 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 But if I want to log out of this Web site, what I have to do is, I have to know 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 to go down here to Login link, and then click the Log out button. 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Now, that's not good at all. 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 That's, in fact, really, really bad. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 It's not obvious at all how I log out of this Web site. 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Wouldn't it be nice if I had a Log out button up here in a more obvious position? 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And then I could just click the Log out button, rather than having to go back to 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 that Login link in order to log out of the Web site. 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 And that is completely possible in Joomla; 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 we're just going to be a little bit tricky about it. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 So, here in the back-end of Joomla, 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 I'm going to go to Extensions > Module Manager. 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 I'm looking at the modules on the site side. 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 If you've been following along with me in these videos, make sure it's not 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 set to the administrator side, and I'm going to scroll back on down to my login form. 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Remember this Login Form? This came with Joomla 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 by default, and it was available on the right side of the screen, and it just 35 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,000 kind of looked ugly. 36 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 So we got rid of it, and we replaced it with the Login link way back a long time ago. 37 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Well, I'm going to resurrect this login form. 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I'm going to go ahead and click on this, and 39 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 I'm going to switch it back to Published. 40 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I'm going to change the Title to Log Out. 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Yes, I'm going to make it say Log Out. 42 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 This is the tricky part. 43 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 And I'm going to Show that title. I'm going to leave it on the Position of 44 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Right, but here's the tricky part: 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 rather than leaving this to Public -- in other words, anybody can see this form -- 46 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 I'm going to switch the Access level to Registered. 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 So, what does that mean? 48 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 That means this box, this box that says Login, will only display when someone is 49 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 already logged into the Web site. 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And the way the login box normally works; let's just take a look at that really 51 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 quick. Switch this back to Public, 52 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,000 and if I just say Save, and I go to my Home page, I have this login box over here on the side. 53 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And if I log in as Joe, with a Password of 123456, and I say Login, once I'm here, 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 there is a button that says Log out. 55 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 So this is what I want to see. 56 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 I want to see this button that says Log out, 57 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 but I don't want the actual login box to show up at any other point in time. 58 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 So, here's the way I get around this. I'm going to log out here real quick. 59 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 I am going to set this Access level to Registered, 60 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 and that way, the only time the "Login" box is going to show up is when you're 61 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 already logged into the Web site, and it's presenting as a Log out button. 62 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 I'm also going to need to make sure I switch my Language to English, because 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 this is only going to be relevant to our distributors for the English side of 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 things right now, and I can go ahead and say Save & Close. 65 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Now when I go to the front-end of the Web site, and I refresh, I don't have a 66 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 login box over here on the side of the screen. 67 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 If I scroll on down to the bottom of the page, and I click on Login, I'm able to 68 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 log in to the Web site. So I'm going to log in as Joe, Password of 123456, 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 and once I'm logged in, now over here on the side of the screen, I have my Log out button. 70 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So I can go to my distributors page, and here's my Log Out information. 71 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 So what I'm done looking at my distributors page, I can click on Log out, and 72 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 very easily log out of the Web site, 73 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 but I don't have that login box remaining over here on the side for 74 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 everybody else to see. 75 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 So that is one step to improving the usability of this Web site.