Navigation Bar

Description

The navigation bar should offer users tools MDC-wide content navigation and for user management within the various content systems.

(note: since there is no mechanism for synchronizing user authentication between the MediaWiki and the Wordpress weblogs, when a user moves between them, they will see different options within the space reserved for user management controls.)

Block Layout

Navigation Bar

A horizontal navigation bar will appear along the top of all MDC pages. This navigation bar should feature the following elements in some consistent fashion:

• MDC branding "badge"
  • acts as link to MDC Home Page
  • needs to be translated into all of the MDC supported languages
  • it might be neat for the logo to be the 'Zilla in wireframe, half-textured as if it were under contstruction
• MDC content navigation links
  • links to content type index pages:
    • News Index Page
    • Community Index Page
    • WebWatch Index Page
    • Article Index Page
    • Reference Index Page
• Links to other Mozilla sites
  • links to other *.mozilla.org sites
  • mozilla.org, wiki.mozilla.org, update.mozilla.org, etc.

When the user is not logged in to the wiki ...

• "Login" which leads to MediaWiki login

When the user is logged in to the wiki ...

• "Me" which links to the user's personal wiki page
• "Contributions" which links to the "My Contributions" wiki page
• "Watchlist" which links to the "My Watchlist" wiki page
• "Preferences" which leads to the MediaWiki user preferences
• "Language" leads to a page that lists all available MDC languages
  • or, simply show the current language and provide a drop-down to change
  • www.ibm.com does this well
• "Logout" option which logs the user out of the wiki

(tbd: for MDC Webwatch and MDC DevNews pages, it might be hard to tell if a user is logged into the MediaWiki. Need to look into this.)