On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:04 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > I still think "Learn" is better than "Ask". "Ask" is good to reflect > mail/forum/IRC, but shadows documentation. True, from "Learn" to > 'support forums' there is a gap, but I think the meaning is better > covered than using "Ask".
I think "Get Help" covers all of those better than either "Learn" or "Ask" :-) "Learn" and "Discover" also overlap the "teaching you something new" idea space. > > The thing that's good about using nouns is that I usually come to a site > > looking for something > > Yes, but chances that your something matches a nav bar term are low. > Either if you find "Development" or "Create" you need to make an > assumption before clicking. Personally, I think if the probability the nav bar helps me find what I'm looking for, then it's basically failed as a piece of UI. I mean, that is the whole point of it, isn't it - finding specific things? Otherwise, we effectively force people to search (either using the search function, or manually clicking through pages) to find stuff, and I know that personally drives me up the wall. It just strikes me that attempting to distill the website taxonomy into a set of single-word verbs should be a lower priority than coming up with a navigation set which really helps people find stuff on the site. It would be great to come up with a list of key tasks that new users and old should be able to perform on the site, and test which setups work best. E.g., for me, finding a tour of the latest release of GNOME would be, as would accessing a web support forum. The marketing-ness of the nav bar should really be a secondary concern, imho. Cheers, Alex. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list