Sunday, October 31, 2010

Blogger.com Wishlist - More Flexibility and Options for the Navigation Menu

The "Pages" and the "Link List" gadgets allow you to create a menu bar when you place those gadgets. That's a big improvement since the introduction of the new template designer, because from then on, those menu bars have been integrated into the templates. Therefore once these gadgets are "added" to your blog, you can change the look and feel of the bar itself, the "buttons" and the font.



In the context of using Blogger.com for more than "pure" blogging and to make the menu bar much more usable and flexible, here are our wishes:

  1. combine the Pages and Link List options, so that the menu bar links can point to pages as well as  configurable URLs
  2. although technically, once that combination is possible, one could include the URL with the Label Search, for most users it would be great to include pre-configured choices, like
    • home (including the option to insert an image as logo on the menu bar)
    • pages
    • labels
    • posts
    • enter link URL
    • search element (the search field is often nicely 
  3. last but not least, drop-down menus would be great, 
    • freely configurable or
    • if the top link is selected as label, the sub-menu could include up to 7 (?) laets or selected posts and the last sub-link for "more".

The drop-down element could be included as an additional "menu" element, same functionality as the normal menu bar element, just nested in to the main menu bar...

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