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Thread: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

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    Re: Link back to http://www.largeformatphotography.info

    Yes, but if you are someone just getting started, you might fall into a thread on this forum straight from Google, so even a mini-banner or a tab coming off the header for "Getting Started in LF" would be a great little side project for someone to create...

    See, I like to direct, not do...
    Last edited by Frank Petronio; 13-May-2006 at 08:07.

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    Re: Link back to http://www.largeformatphotography.info

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Westbrook
    How's that?

    Close enough.

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    Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    The nav-bar item called Home Page doesn't bring you back to the home page of this forum: it brings you to the home page of Large Format Info - which I find confusing and inconvenient. Perhaps there is another way to handle this navigation issue.

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    Re: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    I agree but don't know what to do...

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    Re: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    Well, for historical reasons the "Home Page" is the top level page of the site, so it can be a bit confusing. I could change it to "LF Home Page"??

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    Re: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    Or, perhaps "LF Site Home" ?

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    Re: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    Another thought would be to add "tool-tips" to those selections, so that merely passing the mouse over them would give some additional info. (Of course, I don't know if that feature is even supported in the web-hosting software).

    For example, I had to click on the "unified view" menu item, to figure out what the heck that meant. It was a disappointment, since as a student of eastern philosophy, I was hoping it was the same thing that the customer asked the hot-dog vendor: "Make me one with everything".

    As we all know, some things that appear obvious to engineers, are obscure to users.

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    Re: Navigation: "Home Page" versus the forum itself

    IMHO, less drop-downs, rollovers, and scripts... use more obvious well written text

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    Re: Link back to http://www.largeformatphotography.info

    The "Home Page" label is a bit confusing - sounds like it should be the home page for the forum. Maybe relabel it as something like "LF Info Home"?

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    LF Home Page and Forum Home Page

    I just discovered that if I click on the Banner title, it resets the index page to the forum... How about this: Change the Title to "Large Format Photography.info", and set the url to www.largeformatphotography.info, and set the "Home Page" button in the forum toolbar to the the forum index page. That way, if you want to go the the main site, you just click on the title, if you need to reset the forum index page you hit the home button for that. Makes it a little more consistent with other Vbulletin forum layouts...

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