I would really like a narrow sidebar along the left edge of the screen with links to the various forums. I am finding the navigation awkward and time-consuming.
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At the very top of the page, click on Creators and pick the forum you want to read. The forums are listed in a dropdown as well as on the Creators page. It may help to keep the Creators page open in another tab to save time.
Hi, Gina!
Thanks for your reply, but I already know about both the dropdown and the Creator page. I read everything religiously (pardon the pun). I already find navigating more time-consuming and the number of threads has not proliferated yet. But, it is what it is.
I find the whole thing exhausting. Everything’s so BIG now, it’s like watching a big-screen TV in a closet.
@Saints_Aplenty what kinds of links are you looking for? The right sidebar is still TBD. There won’t be a left sidebar.
A narrow band of icons–something along lines of what appears on the homepage and most others with:
Simple Version: Forum icon links
Complex Version: Forum icons with links to topic headings only alà the old forum style
(I know you said there won’t be a left sidebar but that’s where I would still put what I’m suggesting to be consistent in layout with the homepage, etc. And–I realize this is an aside–I would also make the big word Zazzle at the top of the page take us back to the homepage for consistency.)
@Saints_Aplenty what kinds of links are you looking for? The right sidebar is still TBD. There won’t be a left sidebar.
Not Saints so not sure if I am allowed to chime in or not but ,
I’d like to see the top section, where the cascading menus for the three forum areas are, be a freeze-pane. Like you can do with rows in Excel. So that no matter how far down the page of posts/relies you are, that top menu is always right there for easy navigation. Whether a right or left sidebar menu, there’s still the inconvenience of having to scroll up or down from where you are to get to the menu. And if that freeze-pane also contained the breadcrumb for what section you are currently in, that would be super - no more forgetting which “forum” you are scrolling.
Oooo! Good thinking, Col. You’re savvier than I am in these sorts of things. But, isn’t the narrow band of icons on regular Zazzle pages–the Gifts-Trending-Sell-etc. fixed so it stays put while we scroll? That’s the sort of thing I had in mind. Perhaps sidebar was the wrong term for me to use. Left or top, I think we’re sorta after the same thing. Regardless, we need some better way(s) to navigate.