On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 12:44 America/New_York, Marc Lavallée wrote:
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Le 3 Juillet 2003 05:05, Winfried Ritsch a écrit :
I would prefer to put the navigationbox and additionally pending box for reviewers on the left side only if you are logged in, since it is nice to see your content structure in the home and have the possibility to switch to content, at least for the Members folder.
Otherwhere there should only be boxes on the right side on some folders, like newsbox and calendar in about, but none on the left side.
Navigation makes only sense if, the directorystructure is complex emnough. and for the "content view" switch.
"Navigation" is not really a feature or an option, so it'd be easier for both maintainers and users to keep the navigation box visible at the left, at all time, for all users, since it works as a "context sensitive" menu and shows the site structure.
To me, having both the top navigation and the side navigation is redundant and somewhat confusing, especially if they have only some of same things in them. I think that if the navigation is always going to be on the left hand side, then we don't need the same items on top at all. Since Plone seems flexible enough to allow us to specify our own site structure, I don't think we need to emulate the structure of the plone.org site.
But if people want both, I think they should have the same navigation items, which are the top-level items on the Content Structure: About News Documentation Development Members Community Downloads Search Yes, that's a lot, but with a different design, they will all fit fine on the top nav. Check http://www.boxesandarrows.com for an example of fitting big words in a small nav.
In fact, I think http://www.boxesandarrows.com is a good example for nice, clean design. That site is about the same complexity as pure-data.org (maybe a bit less) but its layout is so clean (the right nav is a bit odd). I like having the main nav items on top, then the sub nav items on the right (left for pd.org?) nav. It gives you a good sense of the different sections.
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