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

[Paul Everitt]

On jeudi, f=E9v 20, 2003, at 20:06 Europe/Paris, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:

> 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=20
>> 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=20
>> 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=20
>> 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,=20=

> 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=20=

> columns (I think two columns are fine, but once you're in the content=20=

> area of the site, three are too many - my chief complaint about the=20
> primary Plone layout.  Fortunately, it wasn't too difficult to fix!)

I think the previous work we did on the NZO skin also took this=20
approach -- the home page was 3 column, but subordinate pages only two=20=

column.

Thus I think this is agreement.  Jeffrey, can you make the change?

--Paul=