Re: Secondary Nav Bar

[karderio <karderio gmail com>]

Re :o)

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 18:06 +0100, LeeTambiah wrote:
> karderio wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, the sidebar on the Ubuntu website doesn't quite
> > behave consistently - on the support page (the one in your link), the
> > help section in the sidebar is permanently expanded, whereas on other
> > pages you click to expand the sidebar sections. Also some sections on
> > the sidebar lead to pages with a different sidebar, some even lead to
> > other sites. An example not to follow I think. With this type of
> > sidebar, I think it could be confusing for inexperienced web users to
> > see the "secondary" sidebar links, interspersed between the "primary"
> > links appear and disappear.
>
> Perhaps i should have been more specific, I was referring to the Ubuntu
> site as a visual look only, NOT link structure. Our site would not
> suffer the same issue's you have discussed above.

No, it was me who wasn't very clear I think. I was commenting on the
Ubuntu site structure issues only as a passing point of interest, not
actually pertaining to the navigation bars. Sorry for being a bit off
topic.

I'm glad to once again be reassured of the plans for coherence of the
future site :o)

> LayoutPlanSecondary0.2.svg [2] the two optional components "bread
> crumbs" and "Related Links Block" need more discussion. Personally I
> think the "bread crumb" component can be dropped.

As another unrelated matter of interest, I've filed a bug (352841 [1])
for Firefox, asking about a "breadcrumb trail" feature to see what
people think about integrating this into a browser.

> The "related links
> block" would ONLY appear in some circumstances where extra related
> links
> may be required. I think Quim will know more about the "related links
> block" functionality or purpose than I.

I just brought this up as the issue of horizontal space was raised for
the navigation sidebar, so I suppose the same issue would apply if the
related links were placed where they are on the mockup. The issue could
be more serious for the "related links", as they seem less "important"
than a navbar.

Love, Karderio.



[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352841 - I filed for
Firefox rather than epiphany as FF already has a breadcrumb trail-like
function.