Comic Navigation
Web mistress here. Okay. I’ve been busy and not doing my mistressy duties for HOLE as I should. I keep meaning to redesign the site, but I just haven’t. I ended up focusing on the functionality instead.
Which, brings me to the comic navigation. It’s ugly, but functional. I had so many people complain about where it was. They wanted it here, or there, or all of the above. They didn’t like the placement, etc. The other day I got a complaint that it is overlapping the comic. I assume it’s because the person’s screen isn’t wide enough. At one point I got requests to have it above the comic, below the comic, in the side bar, over the comments, under the comments, etc. and had all of them. Really? Do you guys REALLY need it repeated that many times? Sheesh. LOL.
My goal is to make the site user friendly, but not ugly as sin.
So, I thought maybe a little open forum on the subject would be helpful to me. The current navigation seems to have made most people happy, but it’s still not great. So, I open this up for conversation – what do YOU think about the navigation and how would you change it. See any other sites you love the look of and the way they navigate? Please share!
Feel free to answer the poll.
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I think above or below. That gives the comic more space to go across (can be bigger) and easy enough to program.
Above is slightly easier because it’s always in the same place, and isn’t between any of the active elements (blog, comments, videos) and the comic. But underneath is easy to find and people with smaller screens might find it easier to have non-comic elements down, out of the way.
I suppose if you were really crazy you could do what some comics (esp. Japanese ones) and use the comic itself as the nav space. Click one side to go one way through the story the other the other way, and double click to the start, or today; and center dblclick to get to archives.. -:>
There’s comic navigation?
Just kidding. I guess I’ve never really had any complaints about it because I read HOLE every day and seldom need to navigate to older comics.
Seems like not matter which thing I try/pick, someone doesn’t like it. This time, I made a poll! So, I’m going with that. HA! It’s all democratic now.
I take all my votes, as so many they are, and vote to have navigation at the top and bottom – I believe it was this way once long ago.
Simple arrows are fine at the bottom does not have to be complex.
The comments can be quite long and having to scroll to the top of the page requires too much hand movement, and I don’t do keybboard shortcuts
Thanks!
Chris