Comments for Admin: R/WW Does Tabs

Admin: R/WW Does Tabs

2007-02-07T13:15:14Z

Rather than spending the night writing posts, I've been wrestling with CSS and various other design issues - the result is a new menu and content tab structure for Read/WriteWeb. The design work on all the tabs was done by the amazing Mike Rundle (he also did the logo a couple of months ago). There are still a few minor things for us to update, but I decided to release in 'beta' mode tonight. You may need to do a hard refresh of the page (shift-F5) to see the changes.

The reason for the content tabs is to provide topical ways to navigate through R/WW's content - and also to help focus our writing on those topics. One inspiration for the tabs was Gigaom.com, who implemented them last year in their re-design.

Let us know what you think, bearing in mind that we haven't 100% finished it yet.

Comment from permanent hater on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T14:45:54Z

I like it. I think R/WW is the only web 2.0 news/analysis worth visiting.

Comment from Lenny on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T14:49:17Z

Looks good Richard, it will be handy to be able to quickly filter out stories by topic. Good work!

Comment from Kanwal on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T15:07:29Z

I see there is no Web 2.0 good one!
I also implemented these tabs after seeing GigaOm and ShoeMoney implement them. After running CrazyEgg reporting on my blog, I noticed users prefer that and are more likely to click on certain topics that draw them to it.

I also someones depending on how popular a category was for the month, it will get featured on the main site navigation links.

Comment from Sameer on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T15:16:55Z

Nicely done Richard.

3 suggestions IMHO:
- Consider adding your weekly wrap up as a side bar feature. It's an easy way to scan what a reader missed from last week.
- Personally, I dont think 'Analysis' does justice to the effort you, Alex and the others go through to not only research but also provide a view point on where a space is going and how things are going to shake out. Some inspiration: 'Predictions', 'View Points', 'Bottom Line'
- The Job Board looks more like Google ads and might get glossed over. I would give it a similar visual treatment to 'Recent Entries'

Cheers, Sameer

Comment from Ali on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T17:34:30Z

It's good. The only thing is that you have too much blank space in your header. Maybe some sort of gradient or a graphic or something would fill it up and make it less blank. Just my opinion.

Comment from FaithfulWeb on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T17:37:32Z

Very nice. Easy to navigate. Can quickly see which posts have the most comments. My only gripe is that I expected the "Contact" tab to link to a web page, as all the other tabs do, not an email link.

Comment from Jitendra on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T19:56:32Z

Love it...Very useful for finding relevant content.

-Jitendra

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T20:08:58Z

Thanks for the feedback - keep it coming, because I know there's a lot more to do yet. e.g. I need to fix the category URLs, and make the tabs display differently for the current tab, etc.

Also I agree we need a Contact form!

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T20:10:13Z

Good idea re weekly wrapups too. Another tab I'm tossing up about is 'News'. Not sure if it needs that tab or not....

Comment from Emre Sokullu on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T22:58:04Z

There seems to be a bug: http://www.readwriteweb.com/aboutme.php looks weird.

Comment from Emre Sokullu on 2007-02-07

2007-02-07T23:24:09Z

Sorry it was my fault, browser uses cached CSS file.

Comment from Aukcje on 2007-02-07

2007-02-08T07:13:54Z

Enjoyed browsing through the site. You have very useful information. Keep up the good work.
Thanks and Greetings