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Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:16 pm
by Mendel
What I would expect to be logical behavior:
Factorio picture link on the very top left of the page should lead to the factorio.com main page.
Link below FACTORIO FORUMS headline should lead to the main forum page (and the link text should be forums.factorio.com
How it behaves now:
Factorio picture link on the top leads to forum main page and the link below FACTORIO FORUMS headline leads to the main factorio.com page.
This is a minor annoyance and I often find I have to click both links before I get the result I wanted
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:02 pm
by Zeblote
It's be most intuitive to make clicking the logo go to factorio.com, make clicking FACTORIO FORUMS go to the forum front page, and remove the small link below.
But after clicking them 1 or 2 times you just get used to it working this way...
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:30 pm
by DaveMcW
What we really need is a better forum logo.
Something like this:
- factorioforums.png (31.79 KiB) Viewed 4425 times
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:18 pm
by Koub
DaveMcW wrote:What we really need is a better forum logo.
Something like this:
factorioforums.png
Them photoshop skillz
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:58 am
by olafthecat
Please make that the official logo!
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:02 am
by olafthecat
The board index button already takes you to the homepage anyway.
I never actually realized that the hyperlink on the FACTORIO logo existed.
I would agree with Mendel, this should be changed.
And get rid of the
www.factorio.com thing, it doesn't fit in...
Header/navbar links
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:27 pm
by Jon8RFC
I think it would match the main site and feel more natural for the big "FACTORIO" logo to point to the main site, and if you really need another board index link, make the "FACTORIO FORUMS" text below it be a link, and remove the tiny
http://www.factorio.com below it.
BEFORE:
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<div id="site-description">
<a href="./index.php" title="Board index" id="logo"><img src="./styles/factorio/imageset/factorio.png" width="625" height="110" alt="" title="" /></a>
<h1>Factorio Forums</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.factorio.com">www.factorio.com</a></p>
<p class="skiplink"><a href="#start_here">Skip to content</a></p>
</div>
AFTER:
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<div id="site-description">
<a href="http://www.factorio.com" title="Factorio Home" id="logo"><img src="./styles/factorio/imageset/factorio.png" width="625" height="110" alt="" title="" /></a>
<h1>Factorio Forums</h1>
<p class="skiplink"><a href="#start_here">Skip to content</a></p>
</div>
Re: Header/navbar links
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:31 pm
by fechnert
Please no. Its common practice that the logo of the page i am visiting refers to the root of that domain.
Developers do this, users expect this.
Re: Header/navbar links
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:52 pm
by Jon8RFC
I didn't know that was common practice for a forum to be that way. I've never heard of it in general, but yes it makes sense for a subdomain in which the site is entirely different. It just doesn't make sense that "Factorio" leads to the forum, so maybe the layout and rules make sense to you, but it doesn't make sense to me. Drive.google.com has a Google Drive logo, for example, not merely a Google logo. Users expect to go where it shows they're going
EDIT: Just scratch the idea. If all users expect it, then I revoke my suggestion.
Re: Links on the top of the forum
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:37 pm
by Kayanor
Merged with older forum title link topic.