[FM discuss] Going home

[Derek Holzer]

I just wanted to point out that currently both the editing and the 
viewing interfaces lack a major usability feature, and that's the 
ability to navigate "home".

Using Pure Data as an example:

On the edit interface, there is no link anywhere to get back to: 
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PureData/WebHome

And on the viewing interface, there is no link which takes you to: 
http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData

The commonly accepted practice would be to place such a link prominently 
in the upper left hand corner of the page, or at least at the very top 
of the menu tree. But sadly it's in neither. I did have a look at the 
Audacity manual to see if things were different there, and found that

http://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/
and
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Audacity/Introduction

contained the same information. Are they the same page, and you've done 
some kind of linking? Or are they different pages with the same information?

Anyway, Jakob Nielsen would be foaming at the mouth if he saw this, and 
actually I find it irksome that I can't get back to the main editing 
page without manually typing its address. So maybe we can change that?

best,
d.

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