minus the horrible color scheme..... On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Ian Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> absolutely and I believe in redoing the navigation would involve redoing > the site. If anyone would like to share any other mock ups other than mekius > go ahead..... I personally like simple site designs like this: > > http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2008/126/3/0/Inkscape_Site_devel____front_by_duckgoesoink.png(flame > me if you want) > minus the fact that I think the "inkscape in brief" section should be just > a wider news section and take the little news box off the side. but I like > designs like that because they list all the links to the different web > software. Songbird does this on their site too.... but their site is a > little too busy http://getsongbird.com/ > just my thoughts.... > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:06 PM, dan sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> On 3-Aug-08, at 10:07 PM, Nick Hughart wrote: >> >> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:34 -0500 Nick Hughart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> babbled: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Ian Caldwell wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Yup, I'd like to eliminate submenus completely One navigation on >> >>>> all pages >> >>>> that has links to pretty much everything. The goal of the new >> >>>> site is make >> >>>> it a lot more usable. With regularly updated news, and a lot of >> >>>> static >> >>>> content around it. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> This is bad design imo, it leads to overload. Having to dig >> >>> through a >> >>> ton of links to find the one you want is crazy, it's best to be >> >>> able to >> >>> filter towards your goal IMO. Much easier to filter then to try and >> >>> find a link among many that sounds like what you want. This is >> >>> how my >> >>> brain works anyway. >> >>> >> >> >> >> we don't need some new navigation system... we need to simplify >> >> content, only >> >> put up what we absolutely need on the e.org "brochure" site (it's >> >> meant to be a >> >> simple "couple of pages" brochure/flier like set of pages with just >> >> the minimum >> >> needed to find out what e is, who is involved, how/where to get it). >> >> >> >> the other bits (trac/bugzilla, wiki, docs etc. etc.) are what is >> >> intended for >> >> large-scale documentation and info - and those (the wiki >> >> especially) is READILY >> >> accessible to people to edit. >> >> >> > >> > Yes, I realize this, most of the links in the submenus will just point >> > to the wiki/tracker/etc. But people found it hard to even find these >> > things on the current site. So it would be nice to point them to >> > where >> > they need to look instead of them having to decode links that don't >> > necessarily match anything they are looking for. So the changes to >> > navigation are nothing stellar, just reorganizing the menu and making >> > the submenu a little more visible so people immediately see things to >> > click on. At least this is what I did with my mockup, haven't seen >> > anyone else come forward with anything yet. >> >> >> >> I'm with Mekius. The number one complaint that I get about the website >> is that the navigation sucks. If we can do something to make it easier >> for people to find stuff then it's a win. >> >> dan >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
