We'll need a standard footer for most of the pages. Here's a ticket to follow progress.

If you know something that should be in the footer, add it below. :)

Things that need to be in the footer:

• Powered by MediaGoblin, a GNU project.

After a discussion on IRC we've agreed that we should make post-registration friendlier.

• After registering, we should auto-login the user (but still not auto-verify their email)
• The user should immediately be redirected to a page like /auth/welcome/ that says:
  • Welcome to mediagoblin!
  • We sent you a registration email! You should click it before you can do anything! (Didn't get it? Click here to re-send)
  • Once you've done that, you can start doing interesting things on our site:
  • Update your bio!
  • Submit images!
  • Go to your homepage!

We should think about what we want to show in the top right of our pages.

Currently, when a user is logged in, we've got: [user]'s account home gallery (logout)

This is getting crowded! :)

I propose we do this:

• Use [user] as the "home" link, which links to the user's profile page.
• Remove the "gallery" link. If the user wants to see his or her own gallery, that can be done by going to the profile page, then clicking "all images" or something similar. This leaves:
• The "logout" link. At first I also wanted to move this to the profile page, but cwebber pointed out it might be better to keep in the top right. While it may not be an action that is frequently used, it can be of high importance for security. Also, the placing right next to "[user]'s account" makes a lot of sense, I think.
• An "upload" button/link. We don't have this yet, but the top right might be a good idea. Similar to for instance YouTube, who have a big bright yellow upload button always at the top. It makes sense, because submitting media is presumably what Mediagoblin is used for. :)

Other websites, like for instance Wordpress or Gmail, have a dropdown menu, where you can view info or logout. It's one way to do it, but personally I'm not a big fan. It's hard to make clear graphically that it's a dropdown menu instead of a regular link, they don't always work well on mobile devices and it makes the code more complex.