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Re: Lugnet/Localities Navigation
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 27 Mar 1999 01:07:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, edboxer@aol.com (Ed Jones) writes:
> > I read Lugnet through the Internet site. A slight navigation suggestion:
> > Add a link to each Locality Site back to the Localities List.
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> OK, gotcha. Yup, I agree, this would greatly simplify perusal/exploration
> of the loc groups.
>
> The nav links will likely be hierarchical in nature -- so that a nav-bar
> along the top of each page will look something like this:
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> Home / Local / United States / New York / New York City / Staten Island
> ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The ~'s here are a crude representation of linkage-underscores in the
> names above. So if you're on the Staten Island page, you could click on
> any of:
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> - Home (www.lugnet.com homepage)
> - Local (homepage for all loc.* groups)
> - United States (homepage for all lugnet.loc.us.* groups)
> - New York (homepage for all lugnet.loc.us.ny.* groups)
> - New York City (homepage for all lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny.* groups)
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> And if you're on a sub-page of the Staten Island page (like a particular
> news article within the lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny.sta group), then Staten Island
> would also be an underlined link above.
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> Does that sound OK?
Great, infinitely more than I expected, but I should have known better than
that from you.
> This'll be a step toward making the newsgroups more hierarchical (in the
> Yahoo! sense) and, in the larger sense, toward making www.lugnet.com into
> an easy-to-browse portal to all things LEGO.
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> > Yes, I know all I have to do is hit <BACK> to go back to the list, but I use
> > the link back to "Groups" from all the other boards and can't seem to stop
> > myself from doing so in the localities.
>
> Grok. :) I don't like the way it currently is either -- it's not good
> for beginners OR experts!
Grok???
> A second advantage of the new way with lots of cross-linkages, BTW, will
> be that you can give someone the URL directly into the Staten Island
> group, and they can get to the other NYC groups quickly and intuitively.
> That is, they won't even need anything in their <BACK> hierarchy.
>
> --Todd
That would be great!!!
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| (...) That single-word sentence was just short for "I grok" or "I grok what you're saying." 'Grok' is a word with many definitions, I think, but basically, to grok something means to understand it in a gut/zen/metaphysical way. In this case, 'grok' (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) OK, gotcha. Yup, I agree, this would greatly simplify perusal/exploration of the loc groups. The nav links will likely be hierarchical in nature -- so that a nav-bar along the top of each page will look something like this: Home / Local / (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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