On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:46 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:13:56 +0100 > Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was thinking on a "Contact" tab in the GUADEC/subsite nav bar instead. > > It makes more sense for users browsing the GUADEC/subsite web, I think. > > > > And here start the problems. ;-) art.gnome.org does this, too: They use > the "global" header but change the GNOME icon and link. > > This is a good way to confuse users: they click "Main page > Community > > GUADEC > Contact". Now, where do they wanted to go? To the main page > contact or to the GUADEC contact? > > I think a global header will fail. > > A site is either part of the main GNOME web -- wgo -- and uses its > header 1:1 including the design, or it's not. In the latter case, they > should use no element of the global header. > > This is, at least, my suggestion.
I would argue that a lot of stuff is part of the main GNOME web, or should be. And they'll actually feel like part of our web site if we put a little effort behind making it happen. I can give at least two examples of a global header being incredibly successful, even across multiple subdomains: Wolfram: http://www.wolfram.com/ http://documents.wolfram.com/ http://support.wolfram.com/ http://store.wolfram.com/ http://gallery.wolfram.com/ Apple: http://www.apple.com/ http://developer.apple.com/ http://store.apple.com/ It does work, when done correctly. The biggest issue is that subdomains are often using the global header icon to link to the top-level of that subdomain, rather than to wgo. Personally, I don't even think that's a problem if they use custom header icons, like art.gnome.org does. Furthermore, custom backgrounds or colors in the header should be encouraged on subdomains, or on significant subsections of the site. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
