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



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