917488 - Update global navigation (in redesign only)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, defect)

Description

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Update the redesign global navigation to the following. In the illustration below, top-level bullet points indicate menus, and second-level bullet points indicate the items in those menus. Parenthesis like (dest: xyz) are destinations and square brackets like [lorem ipsum] are notes.

* Zones
    * App Center (dest: forthcoming App Center Zone)
* Web Platform
    * [The exact same link names and destinations in the "Docs"
       dropdown now.]
* Tools (dest: forthcoming tools page)
* Demos (dest: Demo Studio)
* Developer Program (forthcoming Developer Program landing page)

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Holly, should clicking the menu names themselves ("Zones" and "Web Platform") have any effect? That is, should they be links themselves, or just words that respond to hovering by opening a sub-menu?

Comment 2

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Always, always use a real link....IMHO :D

Comment 3

[hhabstritt]

Agreed with David. However, we may not have the landing pages ready for Zones and Web Platforms at beta launch. I think that it should be a goal to have them by end of October.

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

(In reply to hhabstritt from comment #3)
> Agreed with David. However, we may not have the landing pages ready for
> Zones and Web Platforms at beta launch. I think that it should be a goal to
> have them by end of October.

Agree with you here. Trying hard not to push technical debt into further quarters, but this is an unexpected requirement revealed through implementation, and we did account for exactly this in risk assessment when projecting a final launch date. In other words, we were well prepared for this.

David, don't worry about the "Zones" or "Web Platform" link destinations here. I will open a bug about finishing that up later.

Comment 5

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/8132b2f686addeb4b5dc67435bc0edf98f0b31c5
fix bug 917488 - Update global redesign - progress

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/49f49db1e69276a562b9aae9f392fd9f658769a3
Merge pull request #1389 from darkwing/redesign-nav-917488

fix bug 917488 - Update global redesign - progress

Comment 6

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Reopening, as we do not yet have final URLs for the App Center, Tools, and Developer Program pages.

Comment 7

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Tools hasn't moved: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/tools.

I've also been using https://developer.mozilla.org/tools for the tools screencasts I've been making, and that seems to work too.

I'm assuming that Persona is going to be: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona (which is what it is right now)...

Comment 8

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

(In reply to Will Bamberg [:wbamberg] from comment #7)
> Tools hasn't moved: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/tools.

Yup. Should be easy to fix?

Comment 9

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Final navigation, with destinations.

* Zones [should not be a link for now, we will change this later]
    * App Center [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps]
    * Firefox OS [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS]
* Web Platform (all done -- no changes needed)
* Tools [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Tools]
* Demos (all done -- no changes needed)

We may add more Zones before the beta launch. As part of this, please also remove dummy text from the Zones dropdown.

Comment 10

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/0420208a4a24c99ccbe123501927ce3fa52cb509
fix bug 917488 - Update menu for beta launch

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/a365f34646301c889271ac94b5a4c2552f7c842b
Merge pull request #1437 from darkwing/initial-menu

fix bug 917488 - Update menu for beta launch