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.
Looks good Richard, it will be handy to be able to quickly filter out stories by topic. Good work!
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.
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
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.
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.
Love it...Very useful for finding relevant content.
-Jitendra
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!
Good idea re weekly wrapups too. Another tab I'm tossing up about is 'News'. Not sure if it needs that tab or not....
There seems to be a bug: http://www.readwriteweb.com/aboutme.php looks weird.
Sorry it was my fault, browser uses cached CSS file.
Enjoyed browsing through the site. You have very useful information. Keep up the good work.
Thanks and Greetings