Areas of concern
The cloud of bars
If you look at a reasonably complex page in edit mode in Magnolia 4, the sheer amount of edit bars and new paragraph bars can be overwhelming. Orientation and finding what you're looking becomes more and more difficult the more paragraphs you have . The and finding the edit bar of the paragraph you intend to edit can be somewhat challenging. Furthermore, the areas of the page defined by the web designer or information architect to structure its content are no longer visible - they are hidden behind a not visible or get lost behind the cloud of bars.
Collection paragraphs
Furthermore, problems arise with Some paragraphs mainly exist existing to host or collect other paragraphs. These collection paragraphs - which usually have no or only very few fields on their own - are visually not easily distinguishable from paragraphs with actual content. As a result, it becomes is unclear that you first have to add a collection paragraph before you're able to add any sub paragraph, e.g. in particular if you're a new user or unfamiliar with the collection paragraph. It is often not obvious to you that you'll have to e.g. first add a new news list collection paragraph before you can add a single news paragraph.
Visual Page Editing conceptual overview
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