Re: Feedback on Agora Octave design

[Carnë Draug]

On 19 August 2012 01:25, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> On 18 August 2012 15:58, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>>> 1.) The order of menu items is weird. It should be: code - discuss -
>>>>> help - about, descending depending on how frequent you use it.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't it conventional that "about" comes first?
>>>
>>> I don't think so. Open up eBay, facebook or any other site. The most
>>> important action is always starting as the leftmost item on the upper right
>>> area. On eBay this is "Buy", on facebook it is "Register", on amazon "Log
>>> in", etc.
>>
>> I'd go with Jacob on this one. Actually most of the times I'd even
>> look for an About or Help button on the bottom of the page, not on the
>> top.
>>
>> That reminds me of something I read some years ago on a book of
>> website design. That we should also have the main buttons also on the
>> bottom of the page. The reasoning for this is that after you finished
>> reading a page, you don't have to scroll to the top to click on them.
>> These buttons would not have the icon, just a line of text, each word
>> the same link as the buttons.
>
>
> I'm confused.  Is the suggestion to move the main buttons from the top of the 
> page to the bottom, or that they should be in both places?  The latter is 
> fine, but the former seems unorthodox.

Yes, I meant in both places. Just that in the bottom there would be no
icons, just a single word for each link. I think that's actually
pretty standard on most websites.

> Regarding the position of the "About" button in the list of links, my thought 
> was the links are equivalent to a table of contents with "About" equivalent 
> to the abstract or introduction.

I don't think that applies to websites. For example, you said those
websites didn't had about. On facebook, at the bottom of the left side
panel, there's some links. Below the link for "help", there's a button
that says "more". That button makes appear the button for "About". May
be that the "more" button is only on small monitors like mine, but
even still, the "About" only appears there, where is barely visible.
On Ebay, the About button at the bottom of the page. On Amazon is also
only at the bottom under the section "Get to know us". On FileExchange
took me some time to find it but is at the bottom of the left panel.
On Ted talks, is at the top, again on the top left corner.

Carnë