Advice-seeking.

[hannah]

Before I go make some tea to calm down enough so I can enjoy Doctor Who, I'm curious to know if anyone has any advice on making this letter to DreamWidth support staff a little more accessible to them, because I haven't been able to communicate this issue to people who are ostensibly trying to listen to me.

Hello. I'm writing to you in regards to DreamWidth's current site schemes; specifically, if you're going to create any more. I'm very eager to make use of the resources available to me with my DreamWidth account, but am currently unable to do so due to difficulties with the navigating through the site.

All three three site schemes available - Tropospherical, Celerity and Gradation, and Lynx - are very difficult for me to figure out and their displays make reading the pages distracting and frustrating. I would very much enjoy using the website, but because of the way it is set up, cannot do so.

In particular, I'm hoping to find there are plans to implement a site scheme with in-line menus at the top of the page. I've taken a screencap of my Livejournal account to illustrate, here.

If there is anything like this coming along in the future, I would love to know. If there isn't, I hope this changes soon.

Best,
Hannah

This is like trying to describe the color between "red" and "blue" without having the word "purple" in my vocabulary.

Comments

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I think having the screencap is helpful, here, but I can't get my own livejournal to look like yours so I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'in-line' menus, that are different from the menus I see in DW. Hm.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

They dropped the style I'm using a while back. I really don't know why.

I mean the menu stays within a set framework, without it dropping down over the actual page itself or being stuck on the side.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see! I was missing exactly what you meant, but your new explanation makes good sense to me!

So, I'd advise working the language of your comment into the letter--that the menu stays within a set framework without creatinga dropdown menu that obscures the page content (or something along those lines).

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

"In particular, I'm hoping to find there are plans to implement a site scheme with in-line menus at the top of the page, which would have the menu staying with a set framework without obscuring the content of the page. I've taken a screencap of my Livejournal account to illustrate, here."

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that describes it well.