Admin: R/WW Does Tabs
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.
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I like it. I think R/WW is the only web 2.0 news/analysis worth visiting.
Posted by: permanent hater | February 7, 2007 6:45 AM
Looks good Richard, it will be handy to be able to quickly filter out stories by topic. Good work!
Posted by: Lenny | February 7, 2007 6:49 AM
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.
Posted by: Kanwal | February 7, 2007 7:07 AM
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
Posted by: Sameer | February 7, 2007 7:16 AM
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.
Posted by: Ali | February 7, 2007 9:34 AM
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.
Posted by: FaithfulWeb | February 7, 2007 9:37 AM
Love it...Very useful for finding relevant content.
-Jitendra
Posted by: Jitendra | February 7, 2007 11:56 AM
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!
Posted by: Richard MacManus | February 7, 2007 12:08 PM
Good idea re weekly wrapups too. Another tab I'm tossing up about is 'News'. Not sure if it needs that tab or not....
Posted by: Richard MacManus | February 7, 2007 12:10 PM
There seems to be a bug: http://www.readwriteweb.com/aboutme.php looks weird.
Posted by: Emre Sokullu | February 7, 2007 2:58 PM
Sorry it was my fault, browser uses cached CSS file.
Posted by: Emre Sokullu | February 7, 2007 3:24 PM
Enjoyed browsing through the site. You have very useful information. Keep up the good work.
Thanks and Greetings
Posted by: Aukcje | February 7, 2007 11:13 PM