Hi, Thanks for picking this up James! I like the fact that you are pushing style consistency for the OpenOffice.org website. There is, however, an issue we haven't looked at yet, and an issue we should look at before we are applying the same header everywhere: what to do with the menu / login / ...
James simply removed the login/search part, but left the menu where it was. While this is ok, I'm not so sure about the selected menu item, in the proposed user.services.OOo' case 'Home'. Imho, the 'Home' should only be selected on the www.-subdomain. The central question is: So what menuitem should we highlight when browsing user.services.openoffice.org , or e.g. wiki.openoffice.org ? Or should we simply disregard the menu as well (the current solution for the wiki). A limitation is that we can't make a menu item for each of these 'services' projects. The default for most projects, seems to be highlighting 'Projects' in the menu. Having selected 'Projects', however, assumes that it is easy to navigate to these *.services.OOo pages from the central project page, which is not really the case. Having 'Support' selected would be more appropriate in the User Forums case. Alternatively we could use breadcrumbs like in ( http://nl.openoffice.org/index.html (a native language page) ) And make it look like (and having 'Projects' selected), e.g.: Projects > Services > User Forums (advantage, it is being mirrored quite well in the URL) While this may seem like a good idea, this is not really how we want the user's mental map to look like... it puts the system first, not the user. Better would be: Support > User Forums (and forgive the fact that the URL doesn't mirror this) The Wiki page has even more problems. There is no single label that completely captures all content. So maybe introducing a new menu item dedicated to the Wiki maybe most appropriate, since I don't think the Wiki infrastructure allows for changing the header based on the page displayed in the way we want to. Another solution would be to include a special 'Services' menu, that gives two click access to all services... Any other ideas? g., Maarten > Hi Maarten, Ivan et al, > > We are thinking of putting up a new welcome / homepage for the > OpenOffice.org Community Forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ > - if you click on that link you'll see that at the moment it is just > redirecting to http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ > > I would like to use the same design as has been discussed here, to keep > this page consistent with the new design of the OOo Homepage. > > I've copied the page and created this very quick example: > http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/usooo/ (Ivan, I've taken out the image links > to your site, so you won't be getting unnecessary traffic!). > > Before I go any further with this in the discussion on the forums > <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=2652>, > I just wanted to check with you that you are happy for us to use this > design. If so, and the volunteer group at the forums also agree on this > approach, I'll copy the page again when the OOo Homepage goes live and > use the final version, hopefully with some or all of the elements > working (I've taken out the search/lang/login box etc at the moment, as > I'm not sure whether these will work from > http://user.services.openoffice.org/)? > > Regards, > James > -- > www.8daysaweek.co.uk <http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/> > User-Focused Site | Forums | Help Centre | Easy Installation CDs | > Portable OOo on USB Keys > OpenOffice.org - a compatible alternative to Microsoft Office > > www.OOoMacros.org <http://www.OOoMacros.org/> > A repository for OOo macros/add-ins, and documentation about writing > macros and/or extending OpenOffice.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
