Spark, The site of Lucene is cool, and we may consider using their approach to navigation. However implementing it wouldn't be very easy because it will require to re-write the navigation support completely.
I didn't come up with many site which feature site map. Those I looked at didn't have any description of the links. Despite this fact, I consider that having a short description for a link is good idea, at least for some of the links. As another option for placing description is *using title attribute* which will be rendered as a tooltip in all browsers. When user hovers link with mouse, a tooltip with link description will be displayed. This approach will surely reduce "visual clutter". Regards, Alexey. 2007/7/3, Spark Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I love the new one very much. I have my opinion: It is indeed much better than the previous one, but if this page is taken as the index page, it may be a little visually too verbose. I'd suggest lucene project's index page [1]. It put different content into different tabs. I think the tabbed layout would show one focus per tab. This way we can keep compact and clean together. Just FYI [1] http://lucene.apache.org/ 2007/6/27, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > -- Spark Shen China Software Development Lab, IBM
