From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2007-05-24 12:33:11
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Quoting techtonik <tec...@us...>: > On 5/23/07, Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...> wrote: >> Quoting techtonik <tec...@us...>: >> >> > font for menu items - arial or anything else. With login bar above the >> > header they are taking useful space out of the page. I wonder if it is >> > possible to put login/password form under the header and leave only >> > one way of navigation around the site? >> > >> >> There are block areas left, header, body, right and footer. The login >> form is a block that can be positioned to one of those areas. Moving >> the login form to the header puts the form at the top of the page. >> That said, AFAIK the theming could be overriden but is it worth it? I >> could move it to the right or left if that makes sense. > > I think it is worth it to remove login bar in a way that people won't > have to scroll extra mile solely for skipping this bar. It is a waste > of useful space on a page and perhaps it is worth to add something > extra like search box into it. > The login box disappears once you login. Some like in on the top, some like it on the side, someone else spoke up for the top first and I happen to like it. I don't see this being changed. As for the search box, it is the first item of the left menu bar. Or did you mean a search not specific to the MinGW hosted Drupal content? >> > Another 0.02, but considering audience of MinGW how interesting is >> > "Who is online" and "Popular content" on the main page for everyone? >> > Is the site a kind of entertainment where people seeking for popular >> > pages in the first place or community portal where visitor looks for >> > its friends online to chat? This information could be useful, but it's >> > not worthy the main page. >> > >> >> I find ``Who is online'' interesting; I may want to ping the person. >> This may be more interesting if I consider adding some of the chat >> box/room modules. > > It interesting only for you. None of the other 98% of visitors would > have a desire to "ping" someone else. =) For now we have > groups/mailing list/IRC channel and you want to add chat box modules. > That would be really hard to keep oneself concentrated. I'd moved all > discussions to Google Groups if only SF allowed that. > I will add it as a consideration to think about. >> The ``Popular Content'' is interesting because te >> ``Today's'' view gives a menu of what has changed today. ``All Time'' >> gives a view of what items are popular for reviewing. > >> > I would leave the bare minimum at first and then see what pages are >> > the most requested, linked, searched for after a while. >> > >> >> The ``Popular Content'' module is dynamic and no changes are necessary >> for it. It allows me to see real time what is most requested. >> > > If you really want to keep track on the changes - add an RSS feed. RSS feeds are already enabled. They are not displayed real time though and I have to use an RSS reader external to the site. > I > understand that Popular pages gives a useful view, but it's not worth > to be placed on the first page It is so useful that today I knew that Keith added a comment that I needed to address when I first visited the page. > - better put it to your private page or > to a special page with all available statistics. Not an option provided with the module that provides the content. Perhaps you can help by providing the module maintainers a patch. > People browsing the > site for information will have to read through all this useless stuff > over and over. > Or perhaps those people who are annoyed by the page layout can grab the RSS feed and display as they wish. What is ``useless stuff'' to you is very ``useful stuff'' to others. The Popular Content is at the bottom of the left margin. You have to scroll down just to read it so I don't find it in the way of the main content. > What is more important in navigation bar are links to SourceForge > project page and downloads. > This is a work in progress and that work is yet to be completed. Earnie |