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.

[forthwritten]

I agree - I'd really like to get away from spatially describing menus and instead describing them by function. We need to standardise names though or it just becomes a world of confusion.

[snakeling]

Definitely. Hence the post, so that we all use the same thing :)

[sophie]

Currently the sitescheme can't actually control where that menu goes; it's the same with all schemes.

Not that this is a reason to not do what you said, but I figured I'd say that.

(And actually, you've given me an idea for a way to allow these things to be doable by sitescheme. I'll need to poke people and see what they think.)

[zvi]

I was, uh, completely confused about which menu we were talking about. I was thinking it's the menu that, in tropo red, is up in the right hand corner on sitescheme pages, when I made this comment. *blushes* Later I figured out that it was the menu to allow you to modify your relationship to the account.