No Sidebar?

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No Sidebar?

burr 23 May 2008 23:59

As you guys probably noticed, I removed the sidebar on all of the content pages except the TI-83 and 68k homepages. I was wondering what you guys thought? Like? Dislike? If you guys like it, I think we should do the same with the forum (the forum sidebar would only be displayed on the forum home).

Re: No Sidebar?

DarkerLine 24 May 2008 03:09

Dislike; also, can we please have 68k:start back? I'm sure you had a good reason for doing that, but it breaks the consistency of having all 68k-related pages in the 68k namespace.

Re: No Sidebar?

Weregoose 24 May 2008 06:09

If it's reverted, linking through the calculator images needs to fixed manually. (They led to pages that didn't exist until I fixed them just now.)

Re: No Sidebar?

burr 24 May 2008 08:17

That's four dislikes, so I guess I'll revert it. The main reason I decided to try it out is because I thought the simplicity of just having the page content on the page would be nice. Unfortunately, it isn't very accessible, and it causes the content to stretch the whole page (which looks strange for some reason).

@DarkerLine: The reason I renamed the 68k homepage is so that I could keep the sidebar on the homepage, and still remove the sidebar on the other 68k content pages. There is no way to do that selectively for only one page in a category.

Last edited on 24 May 2008 08:24 by burr Show more

Re: No Sidebar?

RandomProductions 24 May 2008 05:03

I don't like it. The sidebar made certain things easily accessible without having to look through the top menu. I personally think it should come back.

Re: No Sidebar?

Weregoose 24 May 2008 06:06

The navigation should be returned to all pages. I just feel lost otherwise. It also kills me to have that much extra whitespace!

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Re: No Sidebar?

GoVegan 24 May 2008 08:11

I agree, too much whitespace! It looks very good how it was. However, I do like the way you changed the home pages to "home:83" and "home:68". DarkerLine is correct in that the consistency is simply not when you make it that way, however, I do think the word "home" should replace "start" - I never really liked Wikidot's default being "start".

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Re: No Sidebar?

burr 24 May 2008 08:24

Well, I like the home names as well, but I think DarkerLine is right that we should keep the 68k section of the site consistent. How about we just go with home and 68k:home? Would that work for you guys?

Re: No Sidebar?

GoVegan 24 May 2008 08:43

I reckon that's a great idea! And I'm glad you reverted it back to a side nav on all pages =D

Re: No Sidebar?

burr 24 May 2008 08:46

It was a compromise of the best kind — everybody wins :D

Re: No Sidebar?

GoVegan 25 May 2008 02:26

And whilst we are on this winning rampage, is it possible to change the "forum:start" to "forum:home"?

Re: No Sidebar?

burr 25 May 2008 02:51

Done. You should note, though, that it did cause some problems with the forum because it is set to go to the forum:start page, so I implemented a redirect to send it to the forum:home page.

Re: No Sidebar?

GoVegan 25 May 2008 03:14

Smart move, the redirect. Did it cause problems because of Wikidot, or because of the links we had to the start page?

Re: No Sidebar?

burr 25 May 2008 04:33

Wikidot.