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    <title>topic Re: New Help and Support Pages in Plusnet Feedback</title>
    <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735850#M19244</link>
    <description>I like the changes too –&amp;nbsp;I don't even mind the green, in fact I much prefer it to the pink that adorns the majority of Plusnet's websites. I'm not sure I'm keen on the hovering menus though; I always dislike them on websites because they're not great in terms of usability. Problem is, it's difficult for me to explain why… but I'll try:&lt;BR /&gt;Let's imagine that I want to view my closed questions. I've arrived at the new help and support ‘hub’, and I whizz my mouse pointer over to ‘Help Assistant’ in the menu on the left. My pointer lands towards the left end of that menu item – e.g. over the word ‘Help’. The ‘Got a question?’ hovering menu appears, and right at the bottom is a link to ‘View all my questions’. Perfect! I start moving my pointer in the direction of that link. However, very quickly that hovering menu disappears and I find myself looking at the ‘Service Status’ hovering menu instead. Why? Because my direct path between ‘Help Assistant‘ and ‘View all my questions’ meant I rolled over the ‘Service Status’ menu option beneath it. What I should have done, of course, is manœuvred my pointer precisely to the right from above the word ‘Help’ until I reached ‘Got a question?’, at which point I would then change direction to move down the hovering window to get to the link I want.&lt;BR /&gt;I always find that to be a very frustrating usability issue on websites. If I'm in a rush, I'll not infrequently take the direct path with my mouse pointer without giving it a moment's consideration, then the menu I wanted will disappear and I'll get annoyed. I also suspect that it could trip up people who aren't so used to computers; people who, let's face it, probably constitute a fair proportion of Plusnet's customers these days.&lt;BR /&gt;Two other things:&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I'm concerned about the legibility of the text in the hovering menus. It appears to be some kind of purple-ish colour over quite a dark grey; fine, no doubt, for someone with good vision and a good monitor… but I wouldn't be surprised if some people have a problem with it, for example if their monitor defaults to a low brightness (by which I don't mean illumination), and they've never bothered to change it.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Why not pre-populate the ‘Closed Questions within date range’ fields with actual dates? I would suggest something like from six months ago to the current day. It will be no more inconvenient for someone to change the dates if they're not suitable, but if they are suitable, you've just saved that person a bit of clicking.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;P.S. During the writing of those two above points, I ran in the mouse-direction problem I'd spent a while describing. It seems the human brain – or mine at least – really isn't used to picking out a specific path to get from one link to another.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:00:53 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Be3G</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2010-08-25T12:00:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735830#M19224</link>
      <description>If &lt;A href="http://www.plus.net/help/?home=helptop" target="_blank"&gt;these&lt;/A&gt; are the changes that happened this morning I like them.&lt;BR /&gt;Nice and clean and tidy &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@104CD63F9302A50EF5EC70FE32BB8AA1/images/emoticons/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley" title="Smiley" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:51:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735830#M19224</guid>
      <dc:creator>Strat</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T07:51:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735831#M19225</link>
      <description>as it should be, what I have tried so far, no going through the maze, straight there</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:02:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735831#M19225</guid>
      <dc:creator>pierre_pierre</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T08:02:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735832#M19226</link>
      <description>For some reason it didn't log me in automatically but I agree much better&lt;BR /&gt;The only thing which caused me some aggro is that having got to the new window there was nothing to tell me that the previous window had changed and that was how you needed to raise a question&lt;BR /&gt;Another problem - if, instead of just clicking on the link I right click and select an option for opening it doesn't change the original page in Firefox</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:40:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735832#M19226</guid>
      <dc:creator>Oldjim</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T08:40:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735833#M19227</link>
      <description>Thanks for the feedback chaps, &lt;BR /&gt;I'll make sure this gets to the people that matter.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:59:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735833#M19227</guid>
      <dc:creator>adamwalker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T08:59:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735834#M19228</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Quote from: _Adam_Walker_&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;I'll make sure this gets to the people that matter.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;But we already know about it, Adam&amp;nbsp; &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@0FA1396AC0773F33E2DC472BB4F75D3C/images/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:17:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735834#M19228</guid>
      <dc:creator>nadger</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T09:17:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735835#M19229</link>
      <description>OK then nadger, can you change the green bars from lime green to kiwi green please? &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@0FA1396AC0773F33E2DC472BB4F75D3C/images/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:35:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735835#M19229</guid>
      <dc:creator>adamwalker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T09:35:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735836#M19230</link>
      <description>You mean we don't matter &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@EF02202129013B5A91517CA3B2B0F58A/images/emoticons/cry.gif" alt="Cry" title="Cry" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:36:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735836#M19230</guid>
      <dc:creator>Strat</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T09:36:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735837#M19231</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Quote from: _Adam_Walker_&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;OK then nadger, can you change the green bars from lime green to kiwi green please? &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@0FA1396AC0773F33E2DC472BB4F75D3C/images/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I seem to remember when PN mucked up the forum, we can change the bars if we want to</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:00:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735837#M19231</guid>
      <dc:creator>pierre_pierre</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T10:00:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735838#M19232</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Quote from: _Adam_Walker_&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;lime green to kiwi green &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;There's a fruity thought, Adam&amp;nbsp; &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@104CD63F9302A50EF5EC70FE32BB8AA1/images/emoticons/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley" title="Smiley" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:03:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735838#M19232</guid>
      <dc:creator>nadger</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T10:03:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735839#M19233</link>
      <description>I agree, a cursary look and the pages seem very much better - well done chaps. I'll dive in deeper and seee if I can find any bad links etc etc&amp;nbsp; &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@13ACAF1B4DB3038AD540E11CDD6AB984/images/emoticons/cheesy.gif" alt="Cheesy" title="Cheesy" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Well done John - I was almost rolling on the floor</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735839#M19233</guid>
      <dc:creator>mal0z</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T10:39:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735840#M19234</link>
      <description>Maybe I should have said "I'll pass this to the guys that can make a difference" &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@0FA1396AC0773F33E2DC472BB4F75D3C/images/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /&gt; . In saying that and coming back on to topic the content and development bods that have put the hard work in on this rollout were already aware of this post when I went to point it out to them. Needless to say I was very impressed by that &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.plus.net/html/@104CD63F9302A50EF5EC70FE32BB8AA1/images/emoticons/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley" title="Smiley" /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:48:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735840#M19234</guid>
      <dc:creator>adamwalker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T10:48:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735841#M19235</link>
      <description>Yep, them guys done good - I like it - apart from the green bits.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735841#M19235</guid>
      <dc:creator>198kHz</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-24T10:58:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735842#M19236</link>
      <description>Good morning folks,&lt;BR /&gt;I tried to attach a .jpg [s/n graph from Routerstats] to an open question this morning and the new layout rejects it using some words I've forgotten, is it the new page or am "I" doing something wrong.&lt;BR /&gt;Any help would be appreciated as "Questions" sometimes take a while to get themselves answered when you're in a hurry!!&lt;BR /&gt;Regards, Bob.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:11:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735842#M19236</guid>
      <dc:creator>GreenGiant</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:11:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735843#M19237</link>
      <description>Just doing a test using an open question&lt;BR /&gt;First - clicking on "I need to add more details" takes you to the top of the page not the bottom where you need to take action&lt;BR /&gt;Second adding a picture worked but then I was taken back to the top of the page&lt;BR /&gt;This was with Firefox</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735843#M19237</guid>
      <dc:creator>Oldjim</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:25:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735844#M19238</link>
      <description>Yip as I said In my thread yesterday Its much better and 100% less confusing, I really like it, &lt;B&gt;BUT &lt;/B&gt;how do you close a question?</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:31:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735844#M19238</guid>
      <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:31:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735845#M19239</link>
      <description>Yes as you say Jim, up to the top, scroll down and enter the box and type, browse and attach, click add comment and it rejects both text and pic. Works ok if only text is added, has been working ok before changes! IE8.&lt;BR /&gt;Bob.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:34:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735845#M19239</guid>
      <dc:creator>GreenGiant</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:34:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735846#M19240</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Quote from: Steve&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Yip as I said In my thread yesterday Its much better and 100% less confusing, I really like it, &lt;B&gt;BUT &lt;/B&gt;how do you close a question?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;Two ways apparently</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:40:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735846#M19240</guid>
      <dc:creator>Oldjim</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:40:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735847#M19241</link>
      <description>Hmmn Your first screenshot I only have View, No close next to It will try the other way.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735847#M19241</guid>
      <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:42:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735848#M19242</link>
      <description>You can't close tickets if we've raised them manually from here, that might be why you haven't got the close link next to it.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735848#M19242</guid>
      <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:45:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: New Help and Support Pages</title>
      <link>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735849#M19243</link>
      <description>That's the reason then chris, Cheer's for that, Adam did open said ticket manually, Oldjim I attached 2 screenshot's in other post but it's irrelevant now.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.plus.net/t5/Plusnet-Feedback/New-Help-and-Support-Pages/m-p/735849#M19243</guid>
      <dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T11:47:38Z</dc:date>
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