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From: "Konstantin Piroumian" <kpiroumian@apache.org>
To: <forrest-dev@xml.apache.org>, <nicolaken@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Usability news website
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:16:18 +0300
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From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <nicolaken@apache.org>

>
> I found this really cool site about website usability:
> http://wsupsy.psy.twsu.edu/surl/usabilitynews/51/usability_news.html
>
> I especially liked:
>
>   The Impact of Paging vs. Scrolling on Reading Online Text Passages
>   (scrolling wins, we don't need to add paging ;-)

But we can add navigation between pages in the same context (i.e. under the
same menu section). And we can finally use the light blue line that is
currently a waste of space. The navigation bar can look the same as it is in
PHP Docs with titles of previouse and next pages, e.g.:

� Overview                      How to use Forrest �

--
  Konstantin

>
>   Breadcrumb Navigation:  An Exploratory Study of Usage
>   (how it's not really used, but just adds visual context)
>
>   Cascading versus Indexed Menu Design
>   (how our left menus are not so bad)
>
>
> --
> Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>              - verba volant, scripta manent -
>     (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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