[Pdweb] content structure

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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 :
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>> 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.
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> "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.
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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.

.hc