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Navigation across the site is inconsistent. e.g. no obvious way back to the main page from the map. #238

Open dpsnowden opened 9 years ago

dpsnowden commented 9 years ago

Need some discussion on a more consistent site wide navigation strategy. I noticed this most clearly when I was on the map, which feels isolated from the rest of the site nav strategy. Note this is a 3.x issue and not for 3.2.1.

lukecampbell commented 9 years ago

A site-wide navbar would be my preference across the top and then any context-specific navigation would be below that like in the /help section

abirger commented 9 years ago

A couple more examples of inconsistency in the "IOOS Featured Maps" page:

  1. It seems to be the only page with all links leading away from IOOS Catalog site; therefore, IMHO, some warning like "You are going to leave IOOS Catalog site" should be in order. Or, the links may open in a separate browser window/tab.
  2. Although the page title is "IOOS Featured Maps", the descriptions of some links are talking about Data Portals (e.g. GCOOS & GLOS); sometimes link title says Portal while description says "maps" (e.g. CeNCOOS & SECOORA).
kknee commented 9 years ago

For the featured maps links - my vote is that they should open in separate tabs.

I think all the portals are map based, so I don't see an issue with the title of this page.

dpsnowden commented 9 years ago

I agree with Kelly.

On Monday, October 6, 2014, Kelly Knee notifications@github.com wrote:

For the featured maps links - my vote is that they should open in separate tabs.

I think all the portals are map based, so I don't see an issue with the title of this page.

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duncombe commented 9 years ago

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:10 PM, abirger notifications@github.com wrote:

A couple more examples of inconsistency in the "IOOS Featured Maps" page:

  1. It seems to be the only page with all links leading away from IOOS Catalog site; therefore, IMHO, some warning like "You are going to leave IOOS Catalog site" should be in order. Or, the links may open in a separate browser window/tab.

I find the warning pages that 'you are about to leave this site' REALLY, REALLY annoying. They seem to be a favorite irritation on NOAA and other fed sites and they are absolutely unnecessary. Yo dudes! If I didn't want to go to the page, I wouldn't have clicked on the link and, no, I don't care that it is not hosted on your precious site! Now I have to sit around and wait for your tedious time-out and/or click on another link. Fuggedaboudit!

  1. Although the page title is "IOOS Featured Maps", the descriptions of some links are talking about Data Portals (e.g. GCOOS & GLOS); sometimes link title says Portal while description says "maps" (e.g. CeNCOOS & SECOORA).

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daf commented 9 years ago

:+1: to @duncombe

abirger commented 9 years ago

OK, OK, new tab is equally good. However, I believe that the warning is placed at the government sites because of possible litigation, and may be mandatory if and when catalog becomes an official government resource...

lukecampbell commented 9 years ago

:+1: to @duncombe as well. Huge design no-no. We did this once and our users blasted us to hell.

But the new tab thing is fine.

Ultimately the issue with catalog's navigation is that we just need to come up with a consistent design for navigation within the catalog.

dpsnowden commented 9 years ago

Please never use an exit page unless someone has a gun to our heads.

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Luke Campbell notifications@github.com wrote:

[image: :+1:] to @duncombe https://github.com/duncombe as well. Huge design no-no. We did this once and our users blasted us to hell.

But the new tab thing is fine.

Ultimately the issue with catalog's navigation is that we just need to come up with a consistent design for navigation within the catalog.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ioos/catalog/issues/238#issuecomment-58424255.

Excuse my brevity, Sent from Gmail Mobile.

lukecampbell commented 9 years ago

As part of #408 we will once again regain consistency. During the migration all the pages will share common views which will consolidate it. The issue we see right now is that it's hard to extend a view/template, we basically have to start the page from scratch, which is why so many of the pages look different from one another.