On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:08:38AM +0300, Panos Laganakos wrote: > >I liked the design a lot. My only concern with it is the menu on the > >LHS, which takes up a lot of space and doesn't seem to include content > >which is very important. Am I missing something? Could we get away with > >floating that to the right, or doing something different? > > Christian: The reason I want to move the vertical menu on the left > instead of the right, is that the eye gets easily distracted by object > on middle-right objects, thus making the site unfriendly to read > through.
My main concern with it is that the effect is an empty block in the left-hand side, which gives the page content a rather peculiar layout. It's not a blocker, but if we could find a better way to do that, I think I'd prefer that. > Its purpose is to give quick hint on the current version release and > give a second chance to the visitor to find what he's looking for, > *if* he's not satisfied by the major categories of the horizontal bar > menu. Yeah, I understand. But there may be other designs that give you the same hint and not be so constraining of the page layout; perhaps you could consider some alternatives? > I could give it a smaller size and see how that works out or use > JavaScript/CSS to make it expandable/collapsable, but I wouldn't like > to do that (the JS/CSS thingy). Reason being, making them (users) take > a decision on something as trivial as this, once again distracts them > from the actual content. Yeah, I don't think expandability is what we want -- just smart placement of that information. -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125 _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
