Re: Feedback on Agora Octave design

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 18, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> On 18 August 2012 15:58, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>>> 1.) The order of menu items is weird. It should be: code - discuss -
>>>> help - about, descending depending on how frequent you use it.
>>> 
>>> Isn't it conventional that "about" comes first?
>> 
>> I don't think so. Open up eBay, facebook or any other site. The most
>> important action is always starting as the leftmost item on the upper right
>> area. On eBay this is "Buy", on facebook it is "Register", on amazon "Log
>> in", etc.
> 
> I'd go with Jacob on this one. Actually most of the times I'd even
> look for an About or Help button on the bottom of the page, not on the
> top.
> 
> That reminds me of something I read some years ago on a book of
> website design. That we should also have the main buttons also on the
> bottom of the page. The reasoning for this is that after you finished
> reading a page, you don't have to scroll to the top to click on them.
> These buttons would not have the icon, just a line of text, each word
> the same link as the buttons.
> 
> Carnë


I'm confused.  Is the suggestion to move the main buttons from the top of the 
page to the bottom, or that they should be in both places?  The latter is fine, 
but the former seems unorthodox.

Regarding the position of the "About" button in the list of links, my thought 
was the links are equivalent to a table of contents with "About" equivalent to 
the abstract or introduction.

In any event, these points are rather trivial.  Personally, I'm excited about 
Wendy's work and eager to take Agora for a test drive.

Ben