Navigating a website with lots of information is pretty tricky

05/14/2009 - 04:46

Navigating a website with lots of information is pretty tricky - and one of the things I really did not like about the previous forums is the fact that you could not simply say:

"I want all culture-related topics that refer to Sicily"

Hopefully, with this new setup we can have just this type of questions.

Every piece of content created here can be categorised according to its topic (a list of topics can be seen on the left right-hand side) and location. However, none of the two is necessary.

So you can create something about property in rome, gardening in lazio, or just property or just gardening.

You can then also add a tag - something like "cold weather", "marygolds", etc.

To navigate to different types of content we currently have three ways.

1. Look at the piazza which gives you a summary of everything going on.
2. Click on a topic from under the topic menu
3. Enter a destination in the search bar at the top

We will improve on this (as currently it is a bit here, there and everywhere) - but hopefully as you get used to this new way of sorting through content you will find it liberating!

Topic

Comment

In reply to by Annec

Hehehehe, I have "issues" with left & right anyway, so in my house, "right" is known as "the *other* left"......all sides then retreat with honour intact :)Suffice it to say, I can see it overe there ->

Ronald can you put a link to the Piazza in our user navigation menu?And can you put the "cosa fai cosa pensi" box at the top of every page so we can enter our stream of conscious twitterings as we are reading/posting? This is one thing I really like, reading people's musings and if the box is there at the top all the time (like on facebook) I think it encourages people to use it...just a suggestion.