Perhaps the “Search Documentation” field could be placed on the documentation page and not in the header?

We tried that and it did not work. We would loose too much space on the actual page and distract from the content.

Rather unsurprisingly, people don’t use the search that much, and so it makes sense to have it in the top navigation where pretty much every website has their search boxes.

To me the search placement looked great in the image presented in January 9.




Shrinking the Search box might work.  Removing BUY would offer even more room.  And the BUY could be moved to every footer (instead of the header).  To me this sounds like an excellent compromise!

Jon



On Jan 9, 2024, at 12:55 PM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:



On 9 Jan 2024, at 16:47, Tom Rymes <tom@rymes.net> wrote:



On Jan 9, 2024, at 3:29 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:

Hello Tom,

On 8 Jan 2024, at 23:31, Tom Rymes <tom@rymes.net> wrote:

FWIW, I also think the community sections of the site should be as prominent as possible. Users go to the site looking to either download or get support. Everything else is probably a rounding error, IMHO.

I agree and it is. It just isn’t part of the main navigation which is used to its maximum:

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We cannot remove About, Download, Blog and Help because that would bring us back to have different pages with different navigations and it would be hard to switch from one to another.

We cannot remove the Donate button because we are funded by those.

We could find a different place for the avatar, but that would be confusing as this is a standard location, and if we found another place, we would not get enough space to add a Community link.

The only candidate there is is Documentation, but I think Documentation outranks the Community portal. We don’t want people to ask the same questions again. We want them to read the documentation.

-Michael


Perhaps the “Search Documentation” field could be placed on the documentation page and not in the header?

We tried that and it did not work. We would loose too much space on the actual page and distract from the content.

Rather unsurprisingly, people don’t use the search that much, and so it makes sense to have it in the top navigation where pretty much every website has their search boxes.

Tom