Hi Sean -- yes, that's my day job too -- designing and building
Zope/Plone sites for a university where I agree having the top and
side navigation is absolutely key.

Your comments are interesting though -- I hadn't thought that it could
be potentially off-putting not having the top navigation. I'll give it
some more thought.

Best wishes,
David

2008/4/29 Sean Semone <semone@...>:
> Hi David!  Well then for a blog theme then you are spot on.  :)  Most of
> what we are used to designing are departmental sites in higher ed and our
> users (and what we are used to seeing) are top (or even side) nav.
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>  Cheers,
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>  On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:45 AM, David Little wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for this, that's very useful feedback!
> >
> > I do know what you mean about the navigation tabs at the bottom. I did
> > take some liberties with the design in that I plugged in the standard
> > Plone stuff, like the breadcrumb trail, site actions, personal bar and
> > footer but I thought I'd stick with the original design's global
> > navigation. I'm *reasonably* happy with this in that I think
> > Simplicity is a basic blog-like theme with the main navigation tree
> > appearing in the right hand column, so it can probably just about
> > scrape by without top-level navigation tabs.
> >
> > Of course, if there are any other strong feelings about this I can
> > always revisit it.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2008/4/29 Sean Semone <semone@...>:
> >
> > > FYI, I did a bit of testing under XP this morning and based on what I
> saw in
> > > IE7, Firefox 2 and Safari 3.1 it all played nicely.
> > >
> > > As an aside a couple of the folks I showed the theme to really like it,
> but
> > > thought having the navigation tabs at the bottom of the page might be
> > > difficult for some users.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2008-04-15 21:35, Veda Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm working my way through the themes now. Stay tuned for results on
> your
> > > > themes. For now, Simplicity:
> > > >
> > > >
> http://www.openplans.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/simplicity-test-results
> > > >
> > > > - Veda
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