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The paper prototype seemed fairly simple for users to use, so most of the modifications to our final design from our planned design were just restrictions on what we were able to accomplish.  For the most part, we implemented all the features we intended to allow with the original design and paper prototype.  Anyhow, a basic blog post would look something like this:

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After the heuristic evaluations, we almost completely overhauled the color scheme of most of the buttons.  Our evaluators mentioned that the contrast of the colors made it hard to read, so we made sure to redo the buttons such that they would be easy (and hopefully pleasing) to look at. Other than that, we made it so that users would have as little trouble as possible when trying to create a comprehensive blog post.  The details of the user evaluations are discussed later, but some of the design choices we made are as follows:
Colors - designed such that we would have an overall aesthetically pleasing color scheme (that fit in with our logo), but also such that users would have an easy time reading things and looking at the screen.
Images - resizing and dragging are the same as in any other text editor, so it’s very learnable.  Also, unlike other text editors, the text reflows nicely and seamlessly around the image, which is almost more learnable and usable than other text editors, which is a bonus perk.
Text/Section boxes - gave all boxes (including images) an ‘x’ on mouseover, which is a universal symbol for deleting things, which is also very learnable.  Also made adding specific text boxes as easy as clicking a button on the left universal toolbar, and adding new paragraph boxes as easy as pressing enter in a pre-existing box, much like new paragraphs should work (which is also very learnable).
The paper prototype seemed fairly simple for users to use, so most of the modifications to our final design from our planned design were just restrictions on what we were able to accomplish.  For the most part, we implemented all the features we intended to allow with the original design and paper prototype.  Anyhow, a basic blog post would look something like this:page 1: 
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After the heuristic evaluations, we almost completely overhauled the color scheme of most of the buttons.  Our evaluators mentioned that the contrast of the colors made it hard to read, so we made sure to redo the buttons such that they would be easy (and hopefully pleasing) to look at. Other than that, we made it so that users would have as little trouble as possible when trying to create a comprehensive blog post.  The details of the user evaluations are discussed later, but some of the design choices we made are as follows:

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