Kernel page index? [LWN.net]

Kernel page index?

Posted Feb 1, 2007 13:40 UTC (Thu) by goodgnews (guest, #31551)
In reply to: Kernel page index? by proski
Parent article: An LWN reader survey

Me too! I didnt know about this page either. I would suggest redoing the navigation and separate things into catagories with labels. To be honest, i've always ignored those top menu items cause i couldnt make and sense of them.

Example:

Search: [....Search box...]

Content
* Kernel
* Security
* Distros
* ...

Contact
* Subscriptions
* Advertise
* Write for US
* FAQ

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Kernel page index?

Posted Feb 2, 2007 1:54 UTC (Fri) by markcox (guest, #29577) [Link]

i have to add another 'me too', and suggest that you move the options to the bottom of the sidebar, and trim them down. e.g. 'contact us' and 'write for lwn' could be merged. 'home' could be removed because most ppl know that clicking the logo means home. etc.

i would also like to mention elsewhere in this thread the 'grumpy editor' page was discussed, i have to admit that i often skim these as sometimes the article may cover a topic i'm not interested in, and if the article goes for several weeks, i feel disappointed, i think the non-tech articles (like about email clients) should not span across issues.

the third thing i want to address is from an increasing no's of subscribers point of view, it isn't us (the subscribers) you should be asking, it is the non-subscribers, psychologically, if we subscribers think that this years lwn is not as good as last years, we will probably still re-subscribe, so i think it's short sighted to exclude non-subscribers (although, i think you should have a 'different' survey for them).

and, thanks for the good work, i always enjoy reading lwn.

Kernel page index?

Posted Feb 5, 2007 18:34 UTC (Mon) by amarjan (guest, #25108) [Link]

Even simply changing the background colour of the top navigation bar would be a great start. I've always thought that on LWN, navigation == salmon background. That dead grey background on the top just disappears into the page like a slot for a blocked banner ad; I never even noticed it!