[m-rev.] diff: reorganize menu bars on web site

[Peter Ross]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:56:26AM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 26-Mar-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:34:18AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > > This fixes some but not all of the problems with the current web site.
> > > 
> > > ----------
> > > 
> > > Estimated hours taken: 2
> > > 
> > > Reorganize the menu bars on the web site.  In particular, make them expand
> > > and collapse according to which page you have selected.
> > > 
> > > My intent with this change is that (modulo a few exceptions) every page
> > > on the site should now appear in the sub-menus.
> >
> > The idea behind the original design was that all the important pages
> > where available from the menu on all the pages on the website.  I liked
> > being able to click on developers no matter where I was in the site to
> > get to the developers mailing list.  Now you have to navigate your way
> > back down.
> 
> Due to the increase in the number of important pages, and the limit on the
> size of the menu (at least the size that will fit on a single screen), it
> is no longer possible to have all the important pages on the menu,
> at least not unless some pages which were previously classified as
> "important" are now reclassified.
> 
> But how do you decide which pages are "important"?
> Many people complained that they couldn't find pages such as the
> benchmarks page which weren't on the menu.  In other words,
> the site was hard to navigate.
> 
That is the problematic area.  Maybe we should consider only leaving the
links which are "really important".  ie Documentation, and all the mailing
list links.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-reviews mailing list
post:  mercury-reviews at cs.mu.oz.au
administrative address: owner-mercury-reviews at cs.mu.oz.au
unsubscribe: Address: mercury-reviews-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: unsubscribe
subscribe:   Address: mercury-reviews-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: subscribe
--------------------------------------------------------------------------