Meet Myrtle, the New Journals Listing Widget

Hi everybody; if you look on the Journals main page,
you'll see a change to the module on the upper left.  Depending on
whether you're signed in or not (and if you have any Journals or not,
though I'm assuming you do), you should see the new Journals listing widget (which I call "Myrtle", after somehow tongue-twisting "Journals functionality module" into "Myrtle" too many times):



If
you don't have any Journals or are using an external browser (such as
Firefox or Netscape) that's not signed in with your AOL screen name,
you will see a promo and some buttons, which looks almost exactly like
it was before.

Once you sign on, though (you can sign on
by clicking the "Sign On" button in the very top toolbar), you should
see a listing of your public and private Journals, similar to what you
saw on http://journals.aol.com.

If you only have one Journal, you'll see that Journal, as well as the promo underneath.

If you have more than one Journal, the box will keep stretching vertically, up to a max of 20 right now.

Having the box stretch vertically will throw off the layout of the page something fierce; we're working on a fix where the listing will scroll vertically within a set space.

One note to clarify something that may be confusing right now: If you want to add a new entry to your Journal or edit an existing entry, click on your Journal's name.  If you click the "Edit" link to the right of your Journal's name, you will be editing the properties of your Journal (color, layout, etc.).


Oh, and one last thing -- the view with 2 or more Journals doesn't have room for a link to the message boards, so I moved it to the "Advanced Tools & Tips" module in the lower right of the page.


We're
also working on other issues of Myrtle's labeling and layout; we'll be
displaying the number of comments in each entry, and a few other
changes, so please consider this a public test, and let me know what you think of Myrtle in the comments below.

Thanks -- Joe