Alexey, I've uploaded a new two-column sitemap to the website. Feedback and changes are welcome. I'm not sure how to implement your no-navigation pane solution, so your help is needed.
There's also a lot of whitespace between sections, I guess due to H2 headings used in column headers. Do you think we should reduce that but applying a different style? Cheers, Nadya >-----Original Message----- >From: Alexey Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:26 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Re: [site][doc] improving sitemap > >Actually with the new layout of the site which is completely based on >CSS, you can easily hide the left navigation bar and, if you like, the >logo at the top of the page. >And I think hiding the left navigation is a good idea for a site map >because: > 1. it frees up some horizontal space for the map itself, > 2. it quite useless here since all links are present here anyway. > >On the other hand without left navigation the page will look different >from other pages, as Nadya notes. However, I think a slightly >different look is acceptable for a map page. > >Regards, >Alexey. > >2007/6/27, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >Nadya, what do you mean by "shorter sitemap"? Is it that only >> >descriptions become shorter or you killed a couple of unpopoular links >> >too? >> Oh :) I only mean organizing links to take less space and making >> descriptions shorter, not erasing links. If the sitemap is not a >> complete list of all pages, what's the point? >> A couple of links are also inside a paragraph, not on their own (for >> example, the Getting Started with Eclipse link has a link to the eclipse >> movie in its description); but that's not common practice. >> >> >> I like an idea to remove a control bar from the map to make a layout >> >compact. >> Actually, removing the control bar was only because I placed only one >> page, not the whole site on the share. I'm not planning to remove the >> left navigation bar - it is always a part of site except when you print >> a page. I don't think it's a big issue. And again, when all pages of a >> website have the same layout except one given page, this attracts >> unneeded attention. >> >> Cheers, >> Nadya >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Egor Pasko >> >Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:39 AM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: Re: [site][doc] improving sitemap >> > >> >On the 0x302 day of Apache Harmony Alexei Fedotov wrote: >> >> Nadya, >> >> I like an idea to remove a control bar from the map to make a layout >> >compact. >> > >> >+1, and 2 columns looks really really great >> > >> >Nadya, what do you mean by "shorter sitemap"? Is it that only >> >descriptions become shorter or you killed a couple of unpopoular links >> >too? >> > >> >> >> >> On 6/27/07, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> >> > >> >> > I've come up with an idea of improving our site map [1], which is >> >> > essentially a good idea to have. it seems the current version is >> >> > longish. I've have had a sitemap that is really a map with many >> >> > structured links all fitting into one page - and not a long listing >> of >> >> > all pages that we have. The *map* word has the idea of a more >> compact >> >> > design. >> >> > >> >> > With this in mind, I've thought of creating a shorter sitemap [2]. >> I >> >> > still haven't managed to remove all comments to pages, but the new >> >> > design has much less text and organizes links in two columns. >> >> > I'm looking forward to ideas and feedback. My attempt has been very >> >> > straight-forward, and your fresh eye could help us improve the >> >> > navigation a lot. >> >> > .. or you could just say that we have a perfect sitemap, and we >> don't >> >> > need to change anything;) >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > [1]http://harmony.apache.org/sitemap.html >> >> > [2]http://people.apache.org/~nadinem/sitemap_alt.html >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Nadya Morozova >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> With best regards, >> >> Alexei, >> >> ESSD, Intel >> >> >> > >> >-- >> >Egor Pasko >>
