I've found this problem with websites I've developed. Some people just seem to have trouble finding things and it is pretty hard to navigate around perlmonks. For instance to find the two links you've suggested I'd have to look on the right underneath the chatterbox, other users, and sections to find the information nodelet. That's a long scroll down and to the right on my browser.

My suggestion would be to remove some of the links at the top and make sure these two are more obvious.

The other problem is that if a newbie comes here and searches for 'cgi' they'll get the manpage for CGI.pm and if they type 'cgi help' they'll find nothing. Then they'll probably go and ask something that has been asked 1000 times before.

Update: I was thinking that it would be pretty cool if on the preview page it listed nodes that had similar names to yours above the textbox. This would be a cunning way of getting people to search without them knowing it.

I've also found the javascript/dhtml menu thingies to be an excellent way of flattening site structure and squeezing more links into what is already crowded real-estate.

gav^

In reply to Re: Re: Add instruction to use a "good description title"? by gav^
in thread Add instruction to use a "good description title"? by Dog and Pony

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