Re-order sidebar navigation

[BirgitReizevoort]

First finish issue "Add tabs"

Remove from the sidebar navigation:

• Events
• Blog
• About

Change order into:

• Home
• Get involved
• Our embassies
• Our community
• Our sponsors
• Make a donation
• Press
• Contact

Note: name change!

[bloomingbridges]

Have these changes been run by @pdarcey yet?

[spllr]

Well, they are now :-)

We need a secondary navigation anyway.
So have a look at this later this week.

On Jul 2, 2012, at 3:24 PM, bloomingbridges wrote:

Have these changes been run by @pdarcey yet?

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[pdarcey]

I'm happy to go with whatever you guys decide. You're the experts!

If you disagree with what someone is proposing, speak up and explain why.
You guys are experts, but coming from different areas of expertise. Just
remember that everyone wants the best website possible, so criticisms of
the website are totally ok. Personal criticisms, though, are out of bounds.

If we can't reach agreement I'll make a judgement call.

Have fun.

On 02/07/2012, at 3:24 PM, bloomingbridges <
[email protected]>
wrote:

Have these changes been run by @pdarcey yet?

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[BirgitReizevoort]

Florian, I hope the above answers your question. As to my suggestions, I can quickly add some background info.

I had a peek at the data from Google Analytics, which confirmed my hunch that people are leaving our website early. Also, some pages got only a handful of visitors over the last couple of weeks - meaning people couldn't find them (or that there content is irrelevant, but I don't expect that is the case). Plus the data told me what the most popular pages are.

For people to find what they are looking for on a website e.g. complete their task, people rely for an important part on navigation - both primary and secondary (which our site lacked). So I fitted the information from Google Analytics into new navigation which will hopefully help to make the website friendlier form a user perspective!

[bloomingbridges]

Sorry I didn't mean to be rude. It's become a reflex to reply to GitHub issues as briefly as possible..
You made your case perfectly clear thank you. Instead of making certain entries more attractive by placing them someplace else I propose we weed out the entries that don't need the promincence of being in the main navigation in the first place (e.g. press, sponsors, about). Further should we get rid of the HOME entry.

Also be aware, that by singling out just three entries you're essentially creating a new primary navigation. Such a thing will look strangely out of place horizontally when there's nothing on top of it and the place to look for navigation is close to the logo.

Here are two mockups of how it could look like (perhaps merge the two issues?).

Notice that the menu order looks a little unbalanced. Shame that the OURs don't align vertically, so we might as well scrap them? And I propose we swap the final two as well.

[BirgitReizevoort]

Thanks, Flo. I didn't perceive you as rude, by the way :)

Mockups look nice! I especially like the indicator in the menu structure.

I agree that the proposed menu structure doesn't work optimally. Over the weekend I gave your feedback some thought and ordered the information on the website, since it appeared somewhat scattered. How about this (obviously numbers are not visible, they're just indicating the information level):

Sidebar navigation:

1. About Appsterdam
   1.1 (= 1 = landing) Mission statement
   1.2 History
   1.3 First year
   1.4 Embassies
2. Start volunteering (too long? use 'Join us')
3. Sponsors
4. Donations
5. Contact
   5.1 (= 5 = landing) Contact us
   5.2 Press

Horizontal navigation (tabs):

1. Home
2. Events
3. Community
4. Blog

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Some explanation as to why:

• As you probably noticed, I moved some pages to second information level, solving some structure issues. Could we make this second level visible in some way? First-level-pages (single numbers) should be visible at all times, second-level-pages (double numbers) could appear in the sidebar when clicking first-level-page (maybe in smaller corps in red?).
• I kept the Home-'button' but moved it out of the sidebar navigation (I agree that it wat not at a great place - though I would miss it when it was gone altogether) into the horizontal navigation, where I would expect it.
• The tabs in horizontal navigation now all fit into the category 'What we do' - most popular according to Google Analytics.
• Also I got rid of all the Ours - good point.
• Sidebar: I experimented with the About-section before Contact (so Start volunteering would be on top) but found that it didn't work.

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It would be awesome if you could you do your magic and make this happen designwise.

Any changes that should be done using the CMS I can take care of.

[BirgitReizevoort]

Merging with Issue #113 is fine with me, by the way. Consider it merged.