Create menus (after final migration) #39

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opened 2019-09-02 01:21:06 +00:00 by mlncn · 11 comments
mlncn commented 2019-09-02 01:21:06 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

Some menu links will be to pages that only exist after migration, so there's no convenient way to create them ahead of time.

The top menu we want to keep as limited as possible, so it works on mobile devices as well as well. Currently we suggest having the top menu be:

About - Give - Join - Store

(Join goes to the current get involved page, which can almost all be interpreted as ways of 'joining' in with GEO by participating or supporting. As the current page puts it, "Join the movement!")

Search and subscribe should both be text boxes with "Search" and "Subscribe" buttons that are near the top of the site, but not in the menu itself.

Drutopia has nice-looking vertical menus in the footer_menus block, see the bottom of https://demo.drutopia.org/resources for example:

drutopia-menus

Room at the bottom of pages is "free", in the sense it's no longer competing with people achieving other goals they have on the site, so we can go pretty wild here. Let's map it out ahead of time:

Content

  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Gleanings
  • Movement pages
  • Issues
  • Archive (2001-2007)

Get Involved

  • Write for GEO
  • Join the GEO Writer's Network
  • Visual Art
  • Copyeditors
  • Participate through the Website
  • Join the Collective

Support GEO

  • Donate
  • Buy books & more
  • Learn about GEO
  • Subscribe (free!)
Some menu links will be to pages that only exist after migration, so there's no convenient way to create them ahead of time. The top menu we want to keep as limited as possible, so it works on mobile devices as well as well. Currently we suggest having the top menu be: About - Give - Join - Store (Join goes to the current get involved page, which can almost all be interpreted as ways of 'joining' in with GEO by participating or supporting. As the [current page](http://geo.coop/getinvolved) puts it, "Join the movement!") Search and subscribe should both be text boxes with "Search" and "Subscribe" buttons that are near the top of the site, but not in the menu itself. Drutopia has nice-looking vertical menus in the `footer_menus` block, see the bottom of https://demo.drutopia.org/resources for example: ![drutopia-menus](/uploads/c86a43611b57d3535b06f99bc4816f74/drutopia-menus.png) Room at the bottom of pages is "free", in the sense it's no longer competing with people achieving other goals they have on the site, so we can go pretty wild here. Let's map it out ahead of time: ### Content * Articles * Blog posts * Gleanings * Movement pages * Issues * Archive (2001-2007) ### Get Involved * Write for GEO * Join the GEO Writer's Network * Visual Art * Copyeditors * Participate through the Website * Join the Collective ### Support GEO * Donate * Buy books & more * Learn about GEO * Subscribe (free!)
mlncn commented 2019-09-02 01:21:34 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

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mlncn commented 2019-09-02 01:24:17 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

marked this issue as related to #19

marked this issue as related to #19
mlncn commented 2019-09-02 03:48:21 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

mentioned in commit 1fc51a1eef

mentioned in commit 1fc51a1eef1d9fe32f1dcd7040493ede6989cf7a
mlncn commented 2019-09-02 03:57:40 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

Oh there should totally be a link to a page that breaks everything down by topic, too. That just lists all the terms. Future functionality though...

Oh there should totally be a link to a page that breaks everything down by topic, too. That just lists all the terms. Future functionality though...
mlncn commented 2019-09-02 04:03:12 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

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mlncn commented 2019-10-01 03:12:28 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

These were my recommendations for expanding the footer menus. Want me to take a start, creating these menus, and then you can can edit / disable / fix the various links?

cc @FreeScholar

These were my recommendations for expanding the footer menus. Want me to take a start, creating these menus, and then you can can edit / disable / fix the various links? cc @FreeScholar
mlncn commented 2019-10-01 03:12:29 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

assigned to @joshua_davis

assigned to @joshua_davis
mlncn commented 2019-10-01 03:13:52 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

@joshua_davis specifically these here: https://gitlab.com/agaric/sites/geo/issues/39#content

But the point i made above that is, feel free to go wild with lots of links in the footer :-)

@joshua_davis specifically these here: https://gitlab.com/agaric/sites/geo/issues/39#content But the point i made above that is, feel free to go wild with lots of links in the footer :-)
cedewey commented 2019-10-16 20:22:49 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

Hi @joshua_davis it'd be great to finalize the menu for the site. Ben's suggestion of the following would work well for readers, in my opinion. Is that ok with you? and do you want help updating the current menus to match?

Content

  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Gleanings
  • Movement pages
  • Issues
  • Archive (2001-2007)

Get Involved

  • Write for GEO
  • Join the GEO Writer's Network
  • Visual Art
  • Copyeditors
  • Participate through the Website
  • Join the Collective

Support GEO

  • Donate
  • Buy books & more
  • Learn about GEO
  • Subscribe (free!)
Hi @joshua_davis it'd be great to finalize the menu for the site. Ben's suggestion of the following would work well for readers, in my opinion. Is that ok with you? and do you want help updating the current menus to match? ### Content * Articles * Blog posts * Gleanings * Movement pages * Issues * Archive (2001-2007) ### Get Involved * Write for GEO * Join the GEO Writer's Network * Visual Art * Copyeditors * Participate through the Website * Join the Collective ### Support GEO * Donate * Buy books & more * Learn about GEO * Subscribe (free!)
FreeScholar commented 2019-10-22 18:28:38 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

This looks fine for the footer menu links.

This looks fine for the footer menu links.
cedewey commented 2020-02-04 21:58:54 +00:00 (Migrated from gitlab.com)

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