On 3-Aug-08, at 10:07 PM, Nick Hughart wrote: > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:34 -0500 Nick Hughart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> babbled: >> >> >>> Ian Caldwell wrote: >>> >>>> Yup, I'd like to eliminate submenus completely One navigation on >>>> all pages >>>> that has links to pretty much everything. The goal of the new >>>> site is make >>>> it a lot more usable. With regularly updated news, and a lot of >>>> static >>>> content around it. >>>> >>>> >>> This is bad design imo, it leads to overload. Having to dig >>> through a >>> ton of links to find the one you want is crazy, it's best to be >>> able to >>> filter towards your goal IMO. Much easier to filter then to try and >>> find a link among many that sounds like what you want. This is >>> how my >>> brain works anyway. >>> >> >> we don't need some new navigation system... we need to simplify >> content, only >> put up what we absolutely need on the e.org "brochure" site (it's >> meant to be a >> simple "couple of pages" brochure/flier like set of pages with just >> the minimum >> needed to find out what e is, who is involved, how/where to get it). >> >> the other bits (trac/bugzilla, wiki, docs etc. etc.) are what is >> intended for >> large-scale documentation and info - and those (the wiki >> especially) is READILY >> accessible to people to edit. >> > > Yes, I realize this, most of the links in the submenus will just point > to the wiki/tracker/etc. But people found it hard to even find these > things on the current site. So it would be nice to point them to > where > they need to look instead of them having to decode links that don't > necessarily match anything they are looking for. So the changes to > navigation are nothing stellar, just reorganizing the menu and making > the submenu a little more visible so people immediately see things to > click on. At least this is what I did with my mockup, haven't seen > anyone else come forward with anything yet. >>
I'm with Mekius. The number one complaint that I get about the website is that the navigation sucks. If we can do something to make it easier for people to find stuff then it's a win. dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
