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On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:39 +0200, Christopher Bergström wrote: |
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> Usability and navigation needs work. Think in terms of end user.. |
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> Someone may not land on the home page.. At which point he will have to |
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> navigate to where he/she needs to get as quickly as possible. With |
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> click-through patterns (If you can get the data) see where people are |
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> going and make that most accessible.. Navigation should be fairly site |
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> standard and potentially even show a hierarchy of where they are in the |
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> site. (ie Home > Solutions > etc) |
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> Do we have this data? Is now the time to do a structure change to allow |
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> for faster digging? |
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Now is probably not the time, no, structure changes will likely take |
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place after this first part of the redesign is implemented. |
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> (Not exactly related to the redesign, but is the site content index or |
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> in a database at all.. How could we maybe allow for a site/doc search?) |
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Also planned. |
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> I've looked at the preview images for the winning contest.. Is it too |
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> late to consider moving the three navigation boxes to the left hand side |
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> and or keeping some of the left hand navigation there.. |
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In my opinion, adding nav to the left side would take too much |
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horizontal real estate. |
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> Possible to get the CSS page under 8k? |
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Why? the css should be cached by the useragent and therefore will only |
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be transferred once. |
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> btw.. Is there any particular reason the current site pages end in .xml, |
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> but are actually just html docs? (Do we plan to use xhtml at least in |
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> the future?) |
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Yes, the underlying data is xml...the .xml files are being transformed |
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to html/xhtml server-side using xslt. |
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Blackace |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Infrastructure Developer |