thanks Christian a related issue is our logo size and positioning which I would like to see left-justified (your suggestion of that for the press release was excellent) and... the Git size (bigger) rather than smaller, but i know you feel differently about that :-)
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sean > > > Thanks for initiating this. I generally agree with the goals to unify the > site through a single navbar, but am also concerned about visual complexity. > The more we can consolidate navigation items, the better. I'll start > exploring visual treatments with the goal to find something that would work > across all sites. That said, it may still be sensible to keep the intro > separate from the other sites, to direct people in a more focused way > towards only a few sections that we determine (as is currently the case). > > > Christian > > > > On 3/26/09 5:41 PM, "Sean DALY" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here are some ideas for a harmonized navbar across our domains, for >> discussion and input please. >> >> By way of an anology, I would like that a visitor navigating between >> our welcoming reception area, our meeting room, our factory floor, our >> mailroom etc. always know where s/he is and how to get to another >> section and in particular the homepage: www.sugarlabs.org. >> >> I know that Christian wants to keep the navbar short in the intro >> section so it is unobtrusive... that Josh wants a friendly home for >> Activities not unlike Mozilla's addons... that our wiki mavens want >> their usual workspace without fuss and bother, that teachers need a >> super easy to use section, and so on. That said, I think we all want >> teachers, parents, funders, journalists, bug reporters, developers, >> and... , kids :-) to be able to visit and explore the richness of our >> site without getting lost. Because for them, there is "the Sugar Labs >> site" and not 9 separate sites. >> >> It is a measure of the labyrinthine nature of our site/sites that I >> discovered some sections today I hadn't suspected even existed, and >> these sections had no link to the main page or to each other. >> >> Linking our sections will raise the visibility of our site and its >> richness will show any visitor (as if there were a doubt) that our >> community is vibrant. >> >> So, here goes... let's start with the union of all the linked sections >> I can find for sugarlabs.org: >> >> Home >> Wiki >> Blog (or Planet) >> Lists >> Bugs >> Git >> Schools >> Activities >> Download >> People >> Donate >> API >> Buildbot >> Trees >> Indices >> Index >> Lounge (or Forums or Discussions) >> FAQ >> Press (or Contact) >> Register >> Help >> About >> Sitemap >> Login >> Search >> >> plus a missing one: >> Support/Feedback >> >> 26 candidates for a navbar! ...More complicated than I suspected. >> >> Some of these, in particular Search, are never identified as local to >> the section, sure to be confusing to the nontechnical visitor who just >> want to "search the Sugar Labs site". Not everyone knows the Google >> "site:sugarlabs.org" syntax :-) >> >> Others are on the same subject, but point to different places; for >> example, the Activities section of the intro is not yet well >> integrated with activities.sugarlabs.org and even points offsite, to >> the corresponding OLPC pages. >> >> I think we can agree that 25, or 20, or even 15 choices are too many. >> >> The traditional solution to this problem is two tiers: mouseover on >> the navbar reveals subchoices. >> >> The idea being to standardize a navbar like this at the top of every >> section, giving "random access" to any other section. >> >> For example, how about 9 main sections: >> >> *************************** >> Home >> >> Download >> >> Activities >> >> Schools >> >> Contributors >> Wiki / Bugs / Git / API / Buildbot / Translate / People / Planet >> >> Resources >> Documentation / FAQ / Mailing Lists / Community News / Index / Sitemap >> >> Search >> Wiki search / Bugs search / Schools search >> >> Contact >> Press / Forums / IRC / Support / Feedback >> >> Donate >> *************************** >> >> What do you think? >> >> thanks >> >> Sean >> Marketing Coordinator >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Walter Bender wrote: >>>> If it is not already, I think we need to add tabbed browsing as an >>>> important 0.86 feature. We can certainly change the behavior of >>>> www.sugarlabs.org, but we cannot change the behavior of the web. >>> >>> We can't? Doh - it is for the kids! :) >>> >>> Yes - we need it only for 0.84. Please file a 0.86 enhancement bug about >>> the tabbed browsing. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Simon >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >>> > > -- > > Christian Marc Schmidt > > [email protected] > > Pentagram Design, Inc. > 204 Fifth Avenue > New York, NY 10010 > 212/ 802 0248 > > > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
