On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:43 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:59:25 -0600 > Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I can give at least two examples of a global header > > being incredibly successful, even across multiple > > subdomains: > > > [...] > > > > It does work, when done correctly. > > > > I think, there's a difference between GNOME and your examples: Apple > and Wolfram are organizations. They can make a decision and force > sub-site maintainers to follow the decision. > > We lack such an organization: Everybody forks the design whenever it > seems fit. > > It's probably easier for our visitors to have 'outside' links clearly > marked as such. Let's just declare pages such as GUADEC as external > when linking them from the main pages. Every sub-site maintainer is > then free to use whatever seems useful.
Sure, we can't threaten to fire people if they don't conform, but that hasn't stopped us from making a good product before. Our desktop is a collection of applications and libraries with dozens of maintainers. And yet, we manage to have a consistent look-and-feel. Random points that will help a global header succeed: * Second-level navigation should be accommodated, but not required. It should be tailorable to particular subsites. * The standard header without the second level navigation should occupy a small amount of screen real estate. * The standard header without the second level navigation should be visually attractive on its own, and it should be clearly "the Gnome header". Um, probably other points. It's early. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
