I went ahead and implemented these changes. I'm not 100% sure it is a good idea because Protocols are pretty heavily used on the site so having a prominent button can be useful. This button bar isn't just on the main page but also shows up on several other pages. But we'll give it a shot.
<br><br>Let me know what folks think. We can always roll back the change.<br><br>-Reshma<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 21, 2008 11:24 AM, Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> While we're on redundancy, the About Us link is present three
<br> times, and the Help and Protocols links are present twice on the<br> main page. It seems the Resources button should go into the<br> sidebar with the other resources. It's unclear why Protocols is a<br> button but Materials isn't. I think it would be easy to make that
<br> bar into a single line of buttons and remove the duplicates and<br> move some into the sidebar. Perhaps a bar with just Labs, Courses,<br> Groups, and Blogs.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I was thinking the same thing. Everything on it is either a button, in the
<br>> blog already or has been a news highlight for a while. Plus, this at least<br>> slightly decreases the size of the main page.<br>><br>> So I just went ahead and removed the news highlights. New highlights can be
<br>> posted to the blog in the future.<br>><br>> -Reshma<br>><br>> On Jan 21, 2008 11:11 AM, Bill F <<a href="mailto:bill.altmail@gmail.com">bill.altmail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Good idea. That gets rid of the redundant use of 'news' on the front page
<br>>> as well. It makes the top buttons unambiguous. We should move the contents<br>>> of the new highlights into the blog and flip the switch.<br>>><br>>> So are we going to do it?<br><br></div>--
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