On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
I'm ok too with 3a). I missed it in my first reply. But I always prefer having some tabs than plenty of links in an only left column. Does this imply some issues, constraints ? Do you want to refactor the site ? whysupressing all tabs ? I agree that all this is a bit subjective BTW...My only concern is too allow newbies to find informations in the fastest possible way (ok some glitter is good also, Pentaho site looks great inthis POV, I love their bee :o).
I like removing tabs and using only the left bar because based on comments on the mailing lists and in other places it seems that people often miss the "Docs & Books" tab because they are looking at the left bar or the main page only.
Another think I learnt some time ago is a lesson from newspapers. Why doyou think they have narrow columns ? Because it's easier to read (lesseyeballs work). That's also how TV prompters are working. Of course they are all journalists. Test it yourself when really tired, it's obvious. Alesson for oneliners too (I'm a kind of because I did some APL ;o)
I agree with this rationale for having multiple columns in the main area of the page (ie 2 equal width columns in addition to the left bar). In addition related to the above I think there is another. If there are 3 columns perhaps people will scan all of them rather than favoring one or the other, and then asking on the mailing lists where a certain resources is located.
-David
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