Re: developer website tabs mock-up

[Ryan Pavlik <abiryan ryand net>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> Here's something I put together over the weekend:
>  http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/web-test/developer.html
>
> I've taken some real content from the various developer websites to 
> give a better impression of how the "developer website tabs" would work.
>
> I've also lifted the updated Gnome logo off of Sebastien's masthead 
> mock-ups to see how they fit in (this was done fairly quickly in the 
> gimp using the colour -> alpha tool, so we shouldn't use this 
> particular image on the main website).
>
> I mentioned this on IRC, where I got some positive and some negative 
> responses.  Some  of the problems people mentioned include:
>
>    * Confusion over the row of links above the row of tabs
>    * Looks too busy/confusing (possibly due to different alignment of
>      the two rows of links)
>    * Not clear how the first row of links relates to the second row
>
> Does anyone else have anything to add?
>
> James.
I would be inclined to suggest the tabs, if used, should be the top 
level navigation, therefore revealing "sub-links" that are different on 
each tab, and therefore are a little less confusing.  I suspect this 
might be a bit much, however, since that's a cross-site thing.

If there's any way the line under the active tab could be removed, and 
the non-active ones could be made to look like the active one does now, 
it would futher the "tab" metaphor a bit more naturally: otherwise the 
other tabs sort-of just float.

This is all just my personal opinion.

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