[drupal-docs] Drupal navigation tutorial

[Richard Eriksson]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:16:31 -0800, Kieran Lal
<kieran at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
> http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/navigationtutorial

If I understand it correctly, this document is going to be part of
documentation packaged with CivicSpace?  Hence the direct links to
administration pages?  If not, then the paths to getting to the
administration pages would need to be spelled out.  Some brief notes
about each page (I just clicked "next" as I went along reading it).

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8885 could use links for each
individual item in case the reader wants to skip ahead

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8883 it's a little hard to
'read'.  Do users who are about to follow a tutorial get a lot out of
a flow chart?

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/UsefulNavigation this might be
better suited as an appendix?

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8875 should be page two.  I
love the short descriptions of Drupal terminology we power-users take
for granted (I hear Boris' voice echoing in my head, saying "the
glossary module would be perfect for this").

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8876 could possibly use
screenshots of the sites linked at the bottom.

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8877 might be better suited
as an appendix, linked from
http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8875

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8886 ditto

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8878 7 clicks to get to the
first how-to instructions is 5 too many.  This would work well as the
third page.

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8888 the items in the list
could use links if users want to skip directly to the instructions

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8891http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8893
and http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8880 are step-by-step, so
should probably have an ordered (numbered) list rather than an
unordered (bulletted) list.

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8892 could maybe use some
step-by-step elaboration of the points in the unordered list

http://beta.civicspacelabs.org/home/node/8894 (has "Create menu items"
repeated?)

You might benefit from the text and/or ideas at
http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to/dynamic-web20-brochure-site-in-an-hour
written by Roland Tanglao.  That is, if I understand the bits
encouraging creating some 'static' navigation pages correctly. 
There's definitely a need for a 'best-practice' on creating a
navigation structure for different types of sites using Drupal
distributions, and Kieran, your tutorial is a step forward. :)

-- 
Richard Eriksson
Bryght Community Support
http://support.bryght.com/