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

Eben Eliason eben.eliason at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 12:08:00 EDT 2009


I like the idea of a sitemap. We should pick the most essential five
or six areas (keeping newcomers in mind), and could then have a "more"
link adjacent to them leading to the sitemap, allowing people to find
anything they need with two clicks, and without cluttering up the top
of every page with lots of overwhelming links.

Eben


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> there's not... that's the problem. As it stands you can google sugar
> labs, arrive on the homepage, click on the wiki link, then click on
> blogs or lists or bugs or git or schools or activities, and have no
> way to return to the main homepage.
>
> One solution is to make the Sugar Labs logo link to the homepage,
> which is best-practice, but everyone who works in one section or
> another tends to think it is weird to leave that "site"... while the
> visitor's experience is that they are *always* on the Sugar Labs site,
> and that it is a warren of passages and doors.
>
> By two-tier, I mean a small number of "important" links, and each one
> shows on rollover "related" links. I proposed such a hierarchy to
> cover our 26 menu sections, in this thread on March 26th.
>
> Let's try to agree on that navbar please, this will solve both the
> usability and the second-windows problems thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, I'd agree. I think people are more likely to get lost in a sea
>> of windows than browsing around within one. As long as there's always
>> a link back to the main Sugar Labs page, we're probably OK.
>>
>> Eben
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree, as soon as we can decide on a common navbar across our
>>>> separate site sections so visitors won't get lost. As stated
>>>> previously I feel a two-tier navbar will work. Christian has promised
>>>> to work something up.
>>>
>>> Why can't we change the behavior now? People can *not* download activities
>>> when they used the link on the sugarlabs page (when using our browser). This
>>> is more serious to me then people possibly getting lost in a page.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Simon
>>>
>>
>


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