New Mandolin Cafe Navigation Scheme
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, Sep-02-2015 at 6:00am (6658 Views)
You may have noticed, long overdue in our opinion, we've altered the main navigation structure at the top of every page for the entire site.
At one point we had nine navigational items across the top of every page. Ouch. Link overload from every usability study we've read. Our bad. And that was before we removed the "Home" link.
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Hint: click the big Mandolin Cafe logo at the top of any page to get to the home page from any single page on the Cafe. This works on almost any web site.
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First: the Classifieds and Forum links remain where they are, unchanged.
News has moved under the new Community tab. News is a prominent feature of what we're about but we feel we provide adequate avenues on the web to articles, enough that it can be a sub-menu item. Social Groups, Events Calendar and Member Blogs have also moved off of the main and sub Forum menus under this tab. A lot less clutter.
Builders link still points to the builder database but also a sub-menu item to Eye Candy. Support of the builder community remains an vital part of our mission.
The new Learn/Listen link contains valued resources previously were only available on the home page (Chord Library, Tablature Library, TablEdit) and MP3 and Workshops are off the main menu under this category. Also this area, links to our Lessons and Mandolin Cafe On Demand. All of these categories remain unchanged in importance and will be vigorously updated and promoted as always.
We know users don't like change but felt this was badly needed. Less clutter, more immediate availability of our most important resources to a wider audience on every page on the site.