Terminology

[snakeling]

I'm trying to come up with a suitable name for the short menu that's on the profile, to the right of the statistics. I've checked other FAQs, and I see I'm not the only one who's stumped by the problem :)

Would profile menu, or maybe profile navigation menu, be clear enough, or do any of you have better ideas?

Thanks!

Comments

[zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com]

The good thing about using "profile menu" is that it's not spatially oriented. Different siteschemes may place that menu in different locations. I can, for example, imagine a site scheme where create/organize/read/explore is one vertical menu and the "profile menu" is horizontally where it's at on the default site scheme. Or where they're aligned in a row horizontally. Or where it floats on screen as you scroll. All sorts of things a person could do with CSS.

[rho]

I... really have no idea. Mind is totally blank trying to think of anything for this. I'd be happy to go with profile menu, unless anyone else has any better ideas.

[7rin.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd go with profile navigation menu, as while it might be longer, it's a lot clearer - with the added bonus of it doesn't need to change its name if another menu happened to appear on the profile page.

[afuna]

In code, it's being called the user link bar /action links, but neither term may make an immediate connection for users.

[pauamma]

Semirandom thoughts:
- For the personal journal version of this block, "send message" doesn't fit well with the other 3 (it's a one-shot action, unlike the others, which set up recurring stuff)
- none of these have anything to do with the profile other than the location of the links (one has to do with the user's journal or your reading page, one with your own journal, one with the user's inbox, and one with your own)
- both of the above also apply, with changes, to the community version

Would it make sense to have an arbitrary title attached to that link block and use it everywhere to refer to them? Or are you actually asking what that arbitrary title should be? If you are, how does "misc. links block" sound?

[ephemera]

As came up on the LJ poll, 'profile' anything makes me think the menu *relates to* changes in profile - something more use-focussed like 'user interactions menu', mebe?