Reimagine My Community
This page is focused on Navigation. If you are just getting acquainted with Reimagine, then the Information Room (the one with Muttlee the dog) is the best overall place to go. You can go there via the Menu bar or with the button in this section.
This page is a great start point before you go to the Information Room. It’s a quick read, and explains how we use Tables of Contents and other navigation aids.
By clicking on any of the links in the Table of Contents, you can navigate to a topic or section. You get to the Table of Contents by selecting the grey Contents button (top right of page – page header area).
We looked at always having a Table of Contents visible. But we felt that this might detract from the content. The Table of Contents only appears on longer pages.
On this web page, the Page Title is “Navigation.” The Page Title appears on all pages. For the web-minded reader, this is an H1 tag, with the Title tag elsewhere.
This is a major heading. We might follow with a sub-heading (“Old School …”). Notice how the next heading is indented more and a bit smaller.
And sometimes we might have a few sub-sub headings (with even more indentation) like the next example.
Okay—enough already! Back to our usual free-wheeling style.
We know: so where are the screen POPUPS?
We like ‘em too. But some old dinosaur browsers (almost extinct) prefer otherwise, so we try to accommodate those older machines.
We do use popups for our menu system on mobile devices.
So core Reimagine content is Old School.
What this means is rather than the nice easy slide off of a pop-up (nudge the mouse while yawning and the pop-up disappears) we have to spend .03 calories to nail that Back Button on the browser. We get it—we were whining about it but rolled with Old School and made sure we got core and flexor workouts. Someone came up with 1.4 calories per mouse click but we just aren’t sure about their equation and assumptions.
Let’s see. Assume 500 clicks a day (conservative!) in the design zone on a Mac. 500 clicks x 1.4 calories/click means 700 calories. Jogging is about 700 calories an hour, plus or minus.
By going to Old School instead of voice commands and virtual reality for this site, we are helping your workouts (just kidding).
We might use pop-ups later. Who knows? In the meantime, bear with us.
We drew the line at pictures, videos and audio. We plan on adding as many audio-visual assets as we can. We can only do so much retro and we want to avoid being BORING. During the initial release phases of content, we might be a little thin on videos and audio (but stay tuned).
Check out the Design-Geek page for more info.
Breadcrumbs, in tech-land, are not what sprays everywhere when you chew on crusty bread. We know those kind of crumbs go everywhere (including into your friend’s glass of wine). We are talking about the links at the top of a page that begin with “Home >”. They are handy for returning to a previous page.
The disadvantage of a breadcrumb is that it doesn’t take you back to the same place on the previous page like the trusty Back Button does. Breadcrumbs will take you to the top of the selected page.
The advantage of the breadcrumb is that the French have mastered the baguette. Grab one and head on a hike if the Trek-thing has got you scratching your head.
That’s that nifty blue up arrow icon that appears on the bottom right of longer pages. It takes you up to the top of the page, saving .03 calories for the next Back Button click.
One would think it would at least provide a stir-fry recipe. But it doesn’t.
It’s not complicated within Reimagine. You are on a Trek or you are Building something. Each major phase (Trek, Build) has sub “activities” in it. No quizzes though—all we are doing is encouraging your creativity.
As with most web pages, the menu hangs out at the top of the pages.
In the interests of avoiding reaching too far for that Menu (waaay up there) we also provide, at the end of each page within Trek and Build, a link to get you to the next page within Trek and Build.
The link will look like this dark-brown bar with the white description filled in with the destination page.
Or, if you prefer, links are on the Home Page and in the Menu bar area at the top of each page.
Go to next page or section …
Link to description
He seems to have everything under control and is obviously a genius at navigation….
The Table of Contents might even work better than the Navigation Dude …
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