Here are some ideas for a harmonized navbar across our domains, for discussion and input please.
By way of an anology, I would like that a visitor navigating between our welcoming reception area, our meeting room, our factory floor, our mailroom etc. always know where s/he is and how to get to another section and in particular the homepage: www.sugarlabs.org. I know that Christian wants to keep the navbar short in the intro section so it is unobtrusive... that Josh wants a friendly home for Activities not unlike Mozilla's addons... that our wiki mavens want their usual workspace without fuss and bother, that teachers need a super easy to use section, and so on. That said, I think we all want teachers, parents, funders, journalists, bug reporters, developers, and... , kids :-) to be able to visit and explore the richness of our site without getting lost. Because for them, there is "the Sugar Labs site" and not 9 separate sites. It is a measure of the labyrinthine nature of our site/sites that I discovered some sections today I hadn't suspected even existed, and these sections had no link to the main page or to each other. Linking our sections will raise the visibility of our site and its richness will show any visitor (as if there were a doubt) that our community is vibrant. So, here goes... let's start with the union of all the linked sections I can find for sugarlabs.org: Home Wiki Blog (or Planet) Lists Bugs Git Schools Activities Download People Donate API Buildbot Trees Indices Index Lounge (or Forums or Discussions) FAQ Press (or Contact) Register Help About Sitemap Login Search plus a missing one: Support/Feedback 26 candidates for a navbar! ...More complicated than I suspected. Some of these, in particular Search, are never identified as local to the section, sure to be confusing to the nontechnical visitor who just want to "search the Sugar Labs site". Not everyone knows the Google "site:sugarlabs.org" syntax :-) Others are on the same subject, but point to different places; for example, the Activities section of the intro is not yet well integrated with activities.sugarlabs.org and even points offsite, to the corresponding OLPC pages. I think we can agree that 25, or 20, or even 15 choices are too many. The traditional solution to this problem is two tiers: mouseover on the navbar reveals subchoices. The idea being to standardize a navbar like this at the top of every section, giving "random access" to any other section. For example, how about 9 main sections: *************************** Home Download Activities Schools Contributors Wiki / Bugs / Git / API / Buildbot / Translate / People / Planet Resources Documentation / FAQ / Mailing Lists / Community News / Index / Sitemap Search Wiki search / Bugs search / Schools search Contact Press / Forums / IRC / Support / Feedback Donate *************************** What do you think? thanks Sean Marketing Coordinator On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: > Walter Bender wrote: >> If it is not already, I think we need to add tabbed browsing as an >> important 0.86 feature. We can certainly change the behavior of >> www.sugarlabs.org, but we cannot change the behavior of the web. > > We can't? Doh - it is for the kids! :) > > Yes - we need it only for 0.84. Please file a 0.86 enhancement bug about > the tabbed browsing. > > Thanks, > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > market...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel