Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #135 –
Ah. Ok, no worries. Well can play around with it a bit if you like. I haven't given it any thought yet, but it shouldn't be that hard. All you are really doing is re-formatting the sidebar menu categories for a different look, if you see what I mean.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #136 –
Oh well. I didn't read replies here for a while, I'll just share my thoughts after all this experiment on the menu.
It's not ok to click on Account and get to PMs. It's not OK to click on a main menu (Account, and Admin), and get to TWO different areas.
Main menu item = area.
A matter of usability, of natural user expectation, no matter what you felt/brainstormed about when you coded it.
So, please lets bring back two menu items for each of those, or merge the areas. I say 1).
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #137 –
At the moment I sent a PR that splits PMs and profile back, I didn't touch admin/moderate, because TBH I don't find it that bad.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #143 –
Just throwing in an idea: perhaps even go as far as to change the label 'My account' to the user's name, and maybe even a small version of their avatar? Then the whole "hello_ndt" bit next to the news could be dropped altogether, too.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #144 –
The name was suggested a while ago in this topic, dunno...I'm not so sure (do note I do not use social networks and so I have no idea what people expect).
About the avatar, I was thinking to try that too, but based on a comment by forumsearch0r few days ago on how difficult to see was (is?) the very small avatar next to the messages in mobile-form theme I thought it may result in a too small image to be actually useful.
Well, let's see it in place: the "welcome blabla" at the top is the one in the PR, while the small one next to "my account" in the menu item is just an image I added "on-the-fly".
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #145 –
The favAvatar is not bad and the only one who sees it is, well you, and you know what your avatar looks like even when small. For the mobile view we could drop it with one of the media querys so you don't end up with something even smaller than a favIcon.
I can go either way on the my account vs name, I kind of lean towards my account but can't give any reason other than thats my preference. Of course using something from social media is a good way to go, it will be "familiar" to many users, and thats a large user base.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #149 –
One technical reason I can think in order to avoid the name in the menu item: "my account" is a fixed thing, while the name could be smaller, but also wider. And if the name is "big" there would be only two options: 1) cut it, 2) let it break the template.