navigation examples (was Re: [ZWeb] NZO / Plone / etc)

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 07:25  AM, george donnelly wrote:

[SNIP]

> wrt to the abbreviated site map, i mean that it should go in the 
> footer, at
> the very bottom of every page, to facilitate navigaton. Something in a
> roughly similar vein as these sites have (tho a bit more abbreviated):
>
> http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/
> http://www.ColombiaUpdate.com/
>
> wrt to the nav bar, i mean a a horizontol bar that runs across the 
> screen
> below the logo and has a link to each of the top, 5-9 site sections.
> Something like what zope.com has but with less sections and in a bigger
> font.

A very nice (and clean) site is V Satheesh Babu's, http://vsbabu.org/

I really like his pair of navbars - they don't take up too much space, 
and offer nice visual feedback as to which primary section you're in.

Then, his content is not constrained to being wedged in a multitude of 
columns (I think two columns are fine, but once you're in the content 
area of the site, three are too many - my chief complaint about the 
primary Plone layout.  Fortunately, it wasn't too difficult to fix!)