[IAEP] [Marketing] Do not open a new window for menu link on sugarlabs.org

[Sean DALY]

thanks Christian

a related issue is our logo size and positioning which I would like to
see left-justified (your suggestion of that for the press release was
excellent) and... the Git size (bigger) rather than smaller, but i
know you feel differently about that :-)


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
<schmidt at pentagram.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean
>
>
> Thanks for initiating this. I generally agree with the goals to unify the
> site through a single navbar, but am also concerned about visual complexity.
> The more we can consolidate navigation items, the better. I'll start
> exploring visual treatments with the goal to find something that would work
> across all sites. That said, it may still be sensible to keep the intro
> separate from the other sites, to direct people in a more focused way
> towards only a few sections that we determine (as is currently the case).
>
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> Christian
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>
>
> On 3/26/09 5:41 PM, "Sean DALY" <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 <simon at 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
>>>
>>>
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