[FM discuss] Going home

[adam hyde]

hey

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:31 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote:
> 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

there is, it is the Introduction, always the first chapter on the manual
menu.

> 
> 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?
> 

they are the same page. its all done with .htaccess. Any query for a
manual wihtout a chapter by default gets the Introduction

> 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?
> 


you can get it...last week you asked me to add it so I added it and sent
you the email to explain it. There is a link in the drop down menu, it
says 'PureData HOME'...this takes you to where you want to go


adam



> best,
> d.
> 
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