On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:38:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > For the front page that is probably true, but personally I find a left > > menu distracting also after navigating to another page (the one that I > > actually _do_ want to read ;-) > > Which is why I think it's good that the sidebar is only there on the front > page. I'm assuming the intent is to do the same in this redesign, > although without an example of a page that isn't the front page it's > hard to tell.
I beg to differ - the lack of navigation on the pages is probably one of the most significant usability problems of the website. Without the menu, users soon lose sense of where they are on the site. For example, they are not able to browse through all pages of a section (say, "Getting Debian") because they cannot tell whether there is yet another page hidden behind one of those many links, with just the information they need. From the POV of someone who is new to the pages, it can look like a maze of little twisty links between an unorganized bunch of pages. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
