rda wrote:wobo wrote: - it is the most visible issue among the issues there are,
That's among its goals: to be visible enough so people get a sense of where they are in the whole mageia.org Web thing; to be large enough so that it can be easily grasped from touch interfaces.
1. There's a difference between "visible" and unnaturally large as if it were a display for people with reduced sight or senior citizens.
2. There's a difference between usual computer displays and touchscreens where each item is large enough to use it with a thumb.
But ok, if you insist then at least provide a nav bar which matches the rest of the page as an option.
- the forum is the most used page of all
While it certainly has a certain amount of traffic, we have no metric to know this, relatively to www, wiki or blog for instance. Although I'm ok to add an analytics tracker here as well to know (would be good anyway).[/quote] Sorry, but are you kidding? There's no need to have numbers or analytics. How about reading all those forum posts where we need to give directions to the blog or the wiki? Or even to the download page because people rush to the forum first? But of course, if you need hard proof for a matter of course just ask your analytics.
The alternatives you ask for are hardly possible because you do not want (with reason) to do this with CSS and/or HTML.
And please consider to roll back the life pages to the old nav bar and do all the changes in a testbed - this will stop all discussion, takes the pressure from you and will give you all the time to develop a good and stable solution.
A reason against the current nav bar I did not give yet because it is based on
individual taste: IMHO it just looks ugly because of its size.