On 6 July 2010 12:58, zoe slattery <[email protected]> wrote: > Alasdair Nottingham wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure of the right solution, but I do not like the current >> simplified navigation for the website. For me it feels more cumbersome >> when navigating around the site. It has added an extra level of >> indirection, and an extra mouse button click between the front page >> and the content. However I agree what we had before wasn't very good >> either. So I'm wondering if we could do something like: >> >> 1. Do something like the service mix website where the children of the >> top level headers are bunched up together more closely. I think we >> should be able to do this by updating the sites CSS. >> 2. Perhaps we could use a mouse over to expand the sub menu as you >> mouse over the heading in the navigation. >> >> I think the first option is probably easier than the second, but I do >> think we should look getting the key subpages back into the main >> navigation. >> > > I spent some time yesterday experimenting with sub-menus in JavaScript and > with style sheets. I think that the easiest was to do it is with > modifications to the style sheet and some corresponding modifications to the > wiki layout. I didn't like the JavaScript solution was working out. I have > something on my local machine that creates a sub-menu on hover which looks > like this: http://imagebin.ca/view/qumyPsoz.html. > > To get this I had to make changes to a local copy index.html - the next step > would be to make the corresponding changes on the the Wiki and check that > confluence exports something equivalent to my local changes. If it does then > I can check in a modified stylesheet that creates sub-menus. > > wdyt?
Looks great to me. Go for it. Cheers, Jeremy
