You need to put the "log in" in the same place on each page.
Homepage location is on the top left of the page however forums has it on the bottom of the page.
Therefor the "log in" should be at the top left of all the pages.
Be consistent.

Jeremy,

The site has been a great resource for me a new comer to the Linux game. Anyway, I think a fair bit of improvement can be done within the forums. Often I forget which forum I last replied an answer or to whom I provided an answer to (which I have only done a couple of times) but it does get confusing jumping between the forums. I guess if it could be improved somehow that would be great.

Jeremy,

I think the buttons up in the upper right area of the page actually make it easier, and more intuitive to navigate the site for quick links such as going to the forums, loging in/out, checking our profiles, etc...

Sure, if you like go ahead and put some along the left (Hopefully you'll use a hierarchical cascading menu style), but leaving the buttons at the top is a good thing

Obie, try clicking the search button below one of your threads or going to the user cp to see your posts and which threads you have posted in.

I like it, but moving the menu seems like a good idea to me

jeremy, (all),

First, Yes, fantastic site!

Yeah, I am not *that* fond of ads, but sometimes they're useful to me, and hey!, we all gotta pay the bills somehow, right?

I like the buttons -- maybe they could be at the bottom, and a little larger?

The menu looks alright, but for those with smaller screens, maybe you could put a smallish "Main Menu" near the top-left above the list/other-main-block with a line-&-arrow pointing over to the right where the menu resides?

But I must respectfully disagree with digiot about putting the menu on the left, again due to narrow-width users; then each new page *must* be scrolled right to see the entire *contents* you went there for in the first place...

(Me: USA; Goergia (southeast USA) 12+ years professional coding, ~6 years amateur before that; current screens: 17-inch at 1280x1024 + 14-inch at 1024x768, yes, dual-screen, I Like!)

Bottom line: since you say you will keep it clean, I'll live with either/whatever, just do please keep it easy-ish to find & use

Yes, I certainly like the forum-jump & similar-threads features.

The_Nerd asked for MY-Threads and Threads-I've-Posted, very nice idea!

I agree with MasterC, itsjustme, and digiot (as far as I've read as I write this -- I use a text editor to compose messages, then paste 'em into the send-boxes when I'm done...):

*I* *LIKE* the scrolling code boxes! -- slicker that olive oil on the outside of a glass bowl, but without the consequences! To me, this actually makes the code easier to read, and *much* easier to *understand* -- for instance where the lines actually start, etc, & this has gotta be more true for less-experienced readers, who re the ones who are likely to need help the most.

Miles W had a good point about 'next thread' when you've done a search.

Tiyogi mentioned 'login' placement -- I assume that, a-la the top-right buttons, 'login' & 'logout' will share the same location, dpending on which makes sense for the user at that moment?

(digiot: yes the value of pi has changed, at least if you use a longer string of digits than shown in the quote in your sig; computers have improved the accuracy & that includes changing some digits... Ain't computers wonderful? ...)

(david_ross: love your sig, & where did you get all them cute 'smileys'?)



afferro-text for david_ross at LinuxQuestions.org (*why* can't I make the Affero screen accept this?):

Very astute and thought-out comments & answers, one of the more valuable persons on this planet, apparently! (I may give top ranking one of these days, real picky about super-annoints)


Best all, and THANK YOU to jeremy for a fabulous site, that's real instead of a fable!

This may have been covered back up in here somewhere, but on the LQ home page, when the Main Menu is on the left side of the page, you have a link to LQ Merchandise. In the other Main Menus on the right side of the pages, there isn't a link for LQ Merchandise. Then I realized that the Main Menu list on the home page is quite different from the Main Menus on the other pages.

Just an observation.

The homepage needs to be cleaned up a bit. Hopefully soon.

--jeremy

I like the new Search button with text field. This may encourage more people to use this feature. I think that the text field should be wider.

I never really liked the buttons at the top right. Maybe put links horizontally justified right where My Products is (just below the logo and ad). A few of them can be moved to the Main Menu.

I like the new code field scrolling. If not some of the code can look bad running onto another line.

Thanks Jeremy.

I love the fact your interested in making LQ, already an easy to use site, much easier to use. I personally love using the Nav buttons in the upper right. They just seem to be in a little more convenient location.

i made a quick mock-up of a possible design, here.

the html is a probably a mess b/c i just cut and pasted a bunch of stuff around without checking if there were any extra tags around, but it seems to render basically okay on the few browsers i tried it on. it should be good enough to convey the basic ideas.

for some reason only the top right hand ad is showing up now, so you have to kind of imagine two there side-by-side. or else i guess there could be just one big ad across the middle, or two big ads with one on top of the other -- or however you wanted to work it. the menu choices across the top could be modified, too, of course, or even made into graphics, etc. basically this was just intended as a rough work up to possibly add some ideas into the mix. i think it's a little bit of a cleaner design, though, and gets rid of the right hand/left hand menu/whitespace problem.

cheers

synaptical certainly has the right idea.

Let me just say that LinuxQuestions is my favorite forum, but I hate the new sidebar. It makes everything hard to read, cramped, and generally uncomfortable. The NukeAnything extension for Firefox lets you get rid of items on the page, and that makes it a little bit tolerable, but I have to remove the sidebar on every page.

An uncomfortable site is not a rewarding experience, and every time I think "maybe I'll ask on LinuxQuestions," I think "...but I'll have to deal with that sidebar." I don't enjoy coming to this site anymore. I come because I know I'll get the answer to my problem, but I don't feel like sticking around for anything except my own question.

I think the sidebar is rather unnecessary, anyway. Putting the nav buttons and ads at the top and bottom mean that after you scroll down, you don't have to deal with them any more.

I hate to be a poor sport, but I it's such a pain, and I had to say something.

Also, just out of curiosity, what resolution is everyone running? I'm running 800x600. When I try to use LQ at 1024x768, it looks perhaps a little better.

I run 1280x1024, but I do look at any potential changes on a smallish laptop at 800x600 before making them. Thanks for the feedback Travis86.

--jeremy

I agree with vdogvictor, keep the buttons for I use them all the time.

-Joey

For those of you requesting an additional row of horizontal buttons, what do you think of the reviews section now?

--jeremy