Navbar

[filburt1]

I have reduced my navbar template from the stock 219 lines of code to 5:

<if condition="is_array($navbits)">
	<strong>You are here:</strong> <a href="index.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a> <span class="breadcrumb-separator">&raquo;</span>
	<a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">Forum Listings</a>
	$navbits[breadcrumb]
</if>

Simplicity > Javascript, plus I completely rewrote the navbar into the header (around 20 lines of code there) maintaining the links I wanted. Behold the power of semantic markup.

[BamaStangGuy]

I disagree I dont care for your approach, but to each their own.

[filburt1]

How so? I think vBulletin has gotten far too complex for the average Internet user, but as you say, each to his own.

[Andreas]

Congratulations - you've stripped out all the Menu Items which make it easy to navigate and still keep the screen somewhat organized.

*shakes head*

[TruthElixirX]

So like where are the links?

My users would hate this, and they are not all computer oriented.

[filburt1]

They're in the header, which itself is very little markup styled with a lot of CSS. http://www.webdesignforums.net/sitew...t_5_21452.html has screenshots.

The markup is only around a hundred lines total for my entire header, navbar, and footer. The style is backed by 23.5 KB of CSS (which only needs to be downloaded once by the user and is then cached to save bandwidth).

Great numbers of menus != ease of navigation. You may find it intuitive simply because you are used to using discussion forum software for so long, especially vBulletin. Others have no clue where to start. It took me forever to learn that the "CP" in "User CP" meant "Control Panel." Just saying "Control Panel" (what I do now in WDF v5) or "Edit Profile" or "Edit Options" is clearer.

It's the little things.

edit: also note the clearly exposed and labeled Seach field in the screenshots, something critical to a design I have come to learn. Exposing it behind a DHTML menu is not as beneficial.

[bigcurt]

/me runs to find a dictionary

Now to look up about half the words you said :-D..haha.

~Curt

[Boofo]

Youy think the navbar is too complicated but css and javascript aren't? LOL

[Oblivion Knight]

Well I can appreciate what you've done, although I wouldn't go down that route myself..

[sabret00the]

it's sweet in my opinion, of course i have my greivences (sp:?) with your simplcising (word:?) mehtods, as i think some make it harder to nav, especially for vB-experts, but i like the overall idea, and it's not too close to my next overall idea