Re: [wgo] Polishing navigation bars

["Quim Gil" <qgil gnome org>]

On 2/20/07, Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com> wrote:
> > - Current section should be highlighted in the tabs, so the users sees
> > clearly where she is.
>
> Do you need artwork for this?

Sure thing


> > - Current page should be highlighted in the secondary nav bar, so
> > users know where they are.
>
> +1, I can export artwork slices for this too if needed.

Please

> > - I'm unconvinced about the fact that the bar doesn have a beginning
> > and end. Perhaps it would look better if starting at the left edge of
> > the big GNOME logo in the header and finishing at the right edge of
> > the last tab in the primary nav bar.
>
> Do you want to try it with a little bevel on the far left and far right?

Whatever you find it's best, as far as it has edges.

> First one - each of the pages is a nice, small, digestable chunk of
> text.

This is the kind of tour we want to have.

> Could the tour be treated a little separately than other content
> in plone, eg., could it have its own special navbar (maybe a sidebar?),

That was the idea. Note that in the original plan the "Take the tour"
section had other pages apart from the tour thing (screenshots and
screencasts, or something like that. Since we are short of time and
resources the tour has gone up one level, and this is why now the 10
pages are appearing in the secondary bar, which wasn part of the plan.

> and be designed with more of a 'wizard' format (something you walk
> through step-by-step from beginning to end, so you'd click "next" and
> "back") rather than a normal site format (where you don't necessarily go
> through every page or go through everything in order)?

Yes. Having a sidebar with 1-2 words for each page + tiny icon could
be neat and could help users going through the tour (you see how many
pages, you know where you are, you know what topic comes next...).
This could be compatible with next-back.

This sidebar is not a long navigation bar but a short table of contents.


> Second one - Maybe there is a better way to organize the different parts
> of the tour?

As it is planned now each page moves 1 concept can be solved with i.e.
2 paragraphs + 1 big icon coming from the GNOME collection + 1
background probably out there as well. If we merge concepts we have
more complexity, more text, more ideas around, more confusion. A less
comfortable tour.

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