Nadya, IMO both pages have too much info to read from the first glance. Another page layout could be: 1) list of topics like: http://harmony.apache.org/subcomponents/drlvm/developers_guide.html on the top 2) and description for each topic below the list with links to appropriate pages. in this case we can use single column page for descriptions and keep sidebar.
On 6/28/07, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 >>
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