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May 19th 2006 03:19
Hey,
There's an idea that I've been thinking about for a while, although I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be to do.
Most blog sites have a bar that remains the same regardless of where on the site you are visting.
So it might be:
My blog | Friends Blogs | Community Blogs | Community Members
And each of those would lead to a drop down menu. So for my blog it might be: view my blog, post to my blog etc.
I think that a system like that makes navigations so much easier.
I don't know what anyone else thinks though. Comments? Thoughts?
Adam
There's an idea that I've been thinking about for a while, although I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be to do.
Most blog sites have a bar that remains the same regardless of where on the site you are visting.
So it might be:
My blog | Friends Blogs | Community Blogs | Community Members
And each of those would lead to a drop down menu. So for my blog it might be: view my blog, post to my blog etc.
I think that a system like that makes navigations so much easier.
I don't know what anyone else thinks though. Comments? Thoughts?
Adam
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Comment by jon
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Because all of our blogs are spread out over different domains it is not straight forward to login or track a given user over every domain without getting them to login to each one separately.
We are working on a solution and once we have found it we will definitely implement something along the lines of what you describe.
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Comment by AdamB
I've been thinking about this. Couldn't you just run it as a framed site.
So if you visited www.history6.com (or whatever domain) it would display just the same as normal, but the orble site itself would have frames and if you clicked logon from a blog it would take you to this framed site.
It is no problem that the individual domains are the same, because nvigation is fine for readers, it's only for bloggers (ie, people who would sign in) that you would use a menu.
So the orble site would look like this.
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Orble Blogging Network (Prettied up)
Sign in | register
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main site here
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then if you signed in it would become
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Orble Blogging Network (Prettied up)
My profile | My blogs | Friends Blogs | community blogs
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main site here
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or whatever options you wanted. These could be drop down menu's.
Then, even if you navigated to an external blog (like www.history6.com) it could just be opened in the bottom frame. It would all function almost exactly the same but the menu would be retained across domains.
I realise this doesn't solve the lack of time to implement this problem, but I thought I'd send the suggestion along anyway.
Adam
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When we come to this problem I'll pass your suggestions along to Jay.