Add left-nav (dark)

[oubiwann]

This should be a template for 2-column pages.

[oubiwann]

Full-height:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19089384/twitter-bootstrap-3-two-columns-full-height
• http://jsfiddle.net/avrahamcool/vtxnF/10/ (using bootstrap classes)

[oubiwann]

Did a bunch of work on this last night only to find that having a separate <nav> block from the top nav results in smaller (phone) views completely missing the side-bar nav.

I'll redo this with an integrated approach like it used in the Bootstrap admin templates.

sigh

[rvirding]

I don't know where to put this as I can't find the original issue. It was an example Apache page (? iirc) with 3 columns of links, each with a picture. I personally don't like having pictures because they often don't provide any useful information so in the docs list I would prefer to just have titled links.

For an example of what I mean look at erlang solutions new home page.

Bttw where was this discussion?

[oubiwann]

Hrm, not sure what conversation you're talking about?

Here's the latest mock-up for the LFE docs landing page (the theme drop-down in the top-nav will be removed):

• http://docs3.lfe.io/examples/prototype-landing.html

That has large icons + text (not icons-only, which I also don't like ... I need text!) But I do like having images + text, since that makes it visually more interesting. And I'm a visual person :-)

If you scroll below-the-fold on that mockup, a selection of documentation categories are provided. If users don't see this (e.g., if they are using phones or have older/smaller monitors), it's no big deal, since these categories will be displayed in a left-nav for all non-landing-page documentation pages. It's just added flavour for the landing page :-)

[oubiwann]

Ah! I think I know which one you mean, now:

• Identify good examples of API documentation

It has a link to AWS documentation, and they have an "icon carousel" above their docs categories ... with no text whatsoever ... and, yeah, completely unusable to me. In fact, my eyes ignored it altogether and simply browsed the forest of docs links below ;-)

[oubiwann]

Just committed.