Re: [Ipaudit-devel] merry christmas and a happy new website

[Chris G. <cm...@do...>]

Mian H Khalil <Has...@hu...> writes:

>  Neither Lina nor myself felt that we wanted to continue that trend,
> which, from a graphic design point of view is not optimal. So to
> answer your question, yes it is possible, but I don't foresee it
> being done anytime soon. Nevertheless, if we get numerous complaints
> on the user-level from this, IE non developmental staff, then we
> will reconsider.

ipaudit-web is one of those top-left sidebar designs so clicking on
screenshots makes the eye retrain with each click.  Please don't take
this as a suggestion to redesign ipaudit-web.

Since we're getting into human feel, a sidebar where the related pages
for one section will link to another page with no related pages
provides a faux navigation.

Eg: http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.html has
related links to how it works... but the
http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/documentation/howItWorks.html isn't
related to the man pages.

> By tailoring the content to graphic design standards, rather than
> development standards, we aim to provide a site that is more easily
> navigated by all, including but not limited to developers.

If there were 100s of pages of content, dividing upcompartementalization makes
sense.  

I'm in favor of having something meaningful to not use the scroll
functionality for the initial page load to make sense.

However, scrolling is a very cheap user operation with mousewheels but
clicking with the foward/back button forces the user to maintain lots
of navigational state.

The more I click a mouse, the more likely my hand pains are to flare
up.  That's a hard thing to think about when designing a web site.

Biggest Nit: Isn't the right ipaudit for people to be using the one
that's shipped as a part of ipaudit-web?  Neither the main page or the
ipaudit-web page or downloads page indicate thtat ipaudit is part of
ipaudit web and you really only need 1.

Cheers,
Chris
-- 
Chris Green <cm...@do...>
"Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context."