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Re: More old LUGNET homepage prototypes discovered
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:51:16 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Bill Ward wrote:
> They are all nice in various ways, but suffer from the same flaw - too
> much text. People don't read text on web pages, they skim.
Well, they read text, but only after they've determined what it's going to
be about (so to know if it's worth reading). A block of text without a
header is unlikely to be read.
> I would have Top Stories as it is on the production site now, but on the right
> side, and have a navigation bar on the left (repeated throughout the site).
I don't agree with having a navigation bar on the left. It's clutter that
takes up valuable real estate. The navigation tools are the links to
"News", "Guide", and "Home", which fit comfortably at the top (actually,
the home page would be a lot more usable if laid out like the Newsgroup
page
http://news.lugnet.com/
since that has better navigation).
> By the way, I don't think Search should be so prominent. And if it is, it
> should search the newsgroups rather than the parts database by default.
I don't think Search is particularly prominent, although it should be in
the standard LUGNET page header than drifting into centerpane content.
Moreover, the search box is almost always the reason I visit the LUGNET
home page. And it doesn't search Partsref by default---it searches the
LUGNET Guide.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
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