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 Is there a&nbsp;compelling reason why this page has been rendered more complicated to edit than a normal page? The reason I ask is that I just tried to edit this page, and it was ''not'' a good experience. I strongly&nbsp;dislike being forced to&nbsp;go into&nbsp;wikitext view to edit content because I am unable to discern code from content quickly. Basically,&nbsp;when I'm forced to go into wikitext view to edit, it wastes a lot of my time because I am forced to slog through a bunch of code&nbsp;that I'm not interested in editing to get to the content that I actually want to edit.&nbsp;I honestly think there are two kinds of people -- those who don't mind operating in a screen full of code and those to whom a screen full of code is distracting to the point of agony. I am the latter type. I think there are more people like me than there are of the type who don't mind slogging through code. If most people liked to operate in&nbsp;code-clouded screens, MS Word wouldn't have blown away WordPerfect by offering the first PC-based WYSIWYG&nbsp;word processor, and Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to follow Apple into the world of the Graphical User Interface. I feel the same way about this page's overcomplication&nbsp;of editing that I felt about [[Edit and Contribute|Edit and Contribute]]&nbsp;when&nbsp;it, too, forced users to&nbsp;go into&nbsp;code view to edit it. What am I failing to understand? Why is it necessary to render this page harder to edit? Why is it necessary to force users to&nbsp;enter wikitext mode to edit? [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-==== The many colors are confusing to those seeking meaning ====
+==== The many colors are confusing to those seeking meaning  ====
-P.S. I&nbsp;also find the several colors distracting. I mean, we could make every word on a wiki page a different color, but what's the point? Some people who are visual learners are distracted by too many colors, so when a designer asks himself whether some page element should be a different color, a good question to ask is "What am I trying to achieve by setting this off in a different color?" If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted. If everything is colorful, nothing stands out. If every heading has a different color, it can confuse the reader who tries to figure out what's important (and therefore which color is most important). [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1275353238453_896" />
+I&nbsp;also find the boxes' several colors distracting. I mean, I suppose we could make every word on a wiki page a different color, too, but what's the point? Some people who are visual learners are distracted by too many colors, so when a designer asks himself whether some page element should be a different color, a good question to ask is "What am I trying to achieve by setting this off in a different color?" If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted. If everything is colorful, nothing stands out. If every heading has a different color, it can confuse the reader who tries to figure out what's important (and therefore which color is most important, and therefore what to read first). [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1275353238453_896" />
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