Comments | lj_biz: Don't Panic!

rahaeli in lj_biz

Don't Panic!

Aug 16, 2006 16:12

So, tomorrow you might load LiveJournal and say "...wait, what the heck?" We'll be launching our new global navigation scheme, which is out of beta and has now been officially named Horizon. (The vertical navigation option, when we finish it, will be named Vertigo.) If you'd like to try it out in advance, you can go to the Browse Preferences page ( Read more... )

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right August 16 2006, 20:22:51 UTC

FIRST!!!11111oneoneone

I'm excited for Betanav -- er, Horizon. I've been so sick of Dys and Xcol for so long. Yay!

grace_oh September 15 2006, 16:02:33 UTC

AND YOU'RE A POTTER FAN *PROUD*

foxfirefey August 16 2006, 20:29:38 UTC

lj_design should totally get some tag action goin' on in there.

rahaeli August 16 2006, 20:33:32 UTC

Oh, good plan. I'll poke people with sticks.

foxfirefey August 16 2006, 20:36:37 UTC

::does the dance of tag lurve::

jai_dit August 16 2006, 20:36:55 UTC

To build the menus for Horizon, we got the whole staff into groups and set out index cards with all the pages on the site, then shuffled them around until everything fit into logical groups. Then we pulled out the most frequently-used tasks, and the ones we felt defined LiveJournal as a service, and built the menus around them.
Wow, that's a really cool way to come up with new menus. I think it worked pretty well :)

sbisson August 17 2006, 11:08:38 UTC

Actually it's pretty much a standard UI design technique.

You should talk to the Microsoft Office folk about how much wall space and ho wmany post-its they used when designing the new Ribbon interface for 2007 Office...

bridgetester August 17 2006, 13:32:30 UTC

The term is known as "card-sorting", if you want to look up more info. ;)

There's even some posts about how technopatra applied it.

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zhonnika August 16 2006, 20:43:10 UTC

The site scheme does not change anything about your journal style.

If you need help, you can search the Frequently Asked Questions, or go to Support. This community isn't designed to offer support such as the kind you require :)

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bandicoot August 16 2006, 20:42:52 UTC

Are we ever going to get the option to have long comment pages displayed uncompressed?

livredor August 16 2006, 20:49:45 UTC

The option already exists! Using S2, add ?view=flat to the comments page URL. If the journal you're looking at isn't in S2, add ?fallback=S2&view=flat. More info in the FAQ, and unofficial resources on the No LJ Ads Wiki.

bandicoot August 16 2006, 20:56:08 UTC

Thank you!

bandicoot August 16 2006, 21:02:55 UTC

Ahhh - not so. From the FAQ - When there are at least 50 comments on a page, the comment threads will collapse, so lower-level child comments display as a link rather than the full comment. This automatic behavior can neither be prevented nor triggered sooner.
It's the option to view an uncollapsed page, not an unthreaded page, that I'm talking about.

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