The Tip Box: Another fun new feature!
Hullo everyone!
A really neato feature just rolled out. Have you noticed it yet? SPOILER ALERT: We've added helpful tips to your Hubs! These show up in the HubTool, right below the Add Capsule box
Tips
There are several types of tips:
General - General HubTool tips that may be useful for Hubbers at your particular level of experience
Conditional - Tips that show up based on the types of capsules you're using (or not using) and other situational factors
Announcements - Updates on important HubPages things!
Category-specific - Tips based on what sort of category your Hub is in (e.g. recipes, technology, personal finance, etc...)
Clicking on the question mark by a tip will open a little lightbox with more information. You can also click the little arrows to the top right of the box to toggle from one tip to the next (if multiple tips pertain to you), or the arrow to the top left of the box to minimize it.
Warnings
This new HubTool feature also involves making warnings much more convenient. For example, if you upload an image that turns out to be pixelated, you'll see a warning on your Hub right under the tip box. When you click on the question mark, you will get a more detailed explanation of what's up- and you will ALSO see the image that is pixelated. Which is super awesome.
The cool thing about these warnings is that you don't just see them only AFTER you've published a Hub or saved a Hub as unpublished. This is super convenient!
And just a note about warnings for those who might find them alarming: Think of them as the red underlines that shows up under misspelled words- they're there to help, not admonish
Mad Props
This is a really cool new feature. Really, really cool. And so we should all thank the folks behind it. Edward Zhang did most of the building- he has been working on this for quite some time and put a lot of thought and care into it, so when you're appreciating the attention to detail on this feature, you're appreciating the handiwork of the Honorable Mr. Zhang.
Paul Deeds also directed the project, and added some of the really cool features such as the pixelated image showing up in the lightbox for that warning. Paul Deeds, you are amazing. But we already knew that.
More to come!
We're still adding tips to the tip box, so if you don't see many, rest assured that more are to come (especially for veteran Hubbers, who will probably see fewer tips than newbies).
If you have any extra tips you'd like to suggest we add, or want to thank Ed or Paul, or wish to point out a bug... well, that's what this thread is for!
Otherwise... carry on.It shows up on its own- and we need to add more tips for advanced Hubbers such as yourself! When we do, you'll see them
Is this something we can see in non-edit mode?
Sounds like a nice addition, especially for those just starting out.
Thanks guys and gal.It is out now, though for those with many Hubs and lots of experience will see fewer, and they'll appear randomly. We don't want the feature to be annoying (there has been much discussion of Clippy
) so we didn't want to blast the veterans with info.
Here's what it looks like:
^lol, stole my comment - made a better joke then I would have come up with anyway.
May I suggest some sort of jack in the box that shows up on "my account" or "traffic stats" page and pops up and says "Better Luck Next Time" or "Maybe, tomorrow" for the more advanced users? I think it may keep up morale. It would work on me.
I kid, It looks like a really cool tool, Im going to go try it out now.It is pretty sneaky! And we still need to add more tips for pro Hubbers
Keep an eye out for it!
Nicely done guys and gals - and, as sunforged suggested, a random Easter Egg might not go amiss
now that would bring a smile instead of a
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