Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-25 Thread David Crossley
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Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread David Crossley
sebb wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > sebb wrote: > >> David Crossley wrote: > >> > > >> > Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" > >> > and also meet the quest for "usability". > >> > > >> > This intends to use the same colour that "bootstrap" uses > >> > for "a:hover". >

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread sebb
On 13 October 2011 23:00, David Crossley wrote: > sebb wrote: >> David Crossley wrote: >> > >> > Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" >> > and also meet the quest for "usability". >> > >> > This intends to use the same colour that "bootstrap" uses >> > for "a:hover". >> >

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread David Crossley
sebb wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" > > and also meet the quest for "usability". > > > > This intends to use the same colour that "bootstrap" uses > > for "a:hover". > > > > I presume that they have used a dull variant of the li

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
>> Unfortunately the pdf is not free and so we cannot look what exactly >> has an impact. > > Sorry, here is a free link: > >    http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~hornof/downloads/CHI04_Link.pdf Thank you very much, I will read it pretty soon >> Because, if some links are marked visited, and some - even

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:09:08PM +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:39:40AM +0100, ant elder wrote: > >> I don't want to get in the way of those who are doing all this good work > >> with the website but m

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:39:40AM +0100, ant elder wrote: >> I don't want to get in the way of those who are doing all this good work >> with the website but my 2c's is I also would prefer visited links to have a >> different colour. > > +

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:39:40AM +0100, ant elder wrote: > I don't want to get in the way of those who are doing all this good work > with the website but my 2c's is I also would prefer visited links to have a > different colour. +1 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986066 This res

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread sebb
On 13 October 2011 08:49, David Crossley wrote: > Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" > and also meet the quest for "usability". > > This intends to use the same colour that "bootstrap" uses > for "a:hover". > > I presume that they have used a dull variant of the link co

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:49 AM, David Crossley wrote: > Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" > and also meet the quest for "usability". It is not complete. This does not make sure how scrolling people change their link color to visited. If two colors, this needs to be

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread David Crossley
Here is a solution which should meet the quest for "appealing" and also meet the quest for "usability". This intends to use the same colour that "bootstrap" uses for "a:hover". I presume that they have used a dull variant of the link colour. If anyone can work out the exact colour by looking at

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-13 Thread ant elder
> > Some other aspects of our site navigation are already being > addressed. Thanks. > > Another aspect that needs attention is the recent changes > to link colours, which have removed the ability to know > where one has been. > > It is important to be able to know which part

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-12 Thread Christian Grobmeier
>> This usability principle is even more important for documentation. > > OK, and if you do not hit the link but scroll over the content then > how do you mark you link visited? Incubator pages are huge, people are > scrolling not clicking back and forth just to mark the link visited. > So you end

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-12 Thread Christian Grobmeier
>> Another reason I don't see the need to change visited link colors is >> the nature of the docs. I mean they are docs. Do you read docs only >> one time? Not me, I read it often, it is unnecessary for know where I >> was already. This is only necesasry if I have the same link pointing >> to a pag

Re: [SITE] navigation

2011-10-12 Thread David Crossley
Christian Grobmeier wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > The Incubator website has many documentation pages and sections. > ... > > Another aspect that needs attention is the recent changes > > to link colours, which have removed the ability to know > > where one has been. > ... > > It is importa

[SITE] navigation

2011-10-12 Thread David Crossley
The Incubator website has many documentation pages and sections. It is especially important for incoming projects to be able to easily navigate our documentation quagmire. Of course also important for Mentors. Some other aspects of our site navigation are already being addressed. Thanks