Excellent remark Bert. Archiva ((http://archiva.apache.org/) is a good example of what to do regarding to your point.
It is also a BootStrap (CSS) website but customised for Apache. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:10 AM, jbert <albert.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Irregardless of which look and feel to pick, I would like to press the > issue > of breadcrumb navigation or another indication of where we are in the menu > structure. I have noted that the Karaf, Felix and ServiceMix sites don't > seem to have it, so I tend to get lost in my browser history when browsing > those sites. > > As an example, take the DOSGi subproject of Apache CXF: > http://cxf.apache.org/dosgi-releases.html > http://cxf.apache.org/dosgi-releases.html . You can see at the top that > we're 3 levels deep in the navigation and each segment is clickable. > > Contrast this with Cave subproject's download page: > http://karaf.apache.org/index/subprojects/cave/source.html > http://karaf.apache.org/index/subprojects/cave/source.html . Obviously one > can see that this page is about Cave and SVN, but there is no easily > visible > link to the project's main page other than scrolling down and picking out > the subproject from a full menu. > > > Where to put those breadcrumbs is left to artistic interpretation, but I > guess it somehow needs to be close to the top of the page and yet not too > close to the logo. I feel that the breadcrumbs of the CXF page tend to get > drowned out by the large "Apache CXF" letters at the top, so this is a > chance to do it right. > > > With best regards, > > Bert > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Karaf-web-site-revamp-tp4025853p4025961.html > Sent from the Karaf - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Charles Moulliard Apache Committer / Sr. Pr. Consultant at FuseSource.com Twitter : @cmoulliard Blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com
