Hey Folks -
We've been working on a new, simplified navigation bar for MySpace. The new nav only has seven main links: Home, Mail, Profile, Friends, Music, MySpaceTV, and More. It also has two sub-links to the far right: My Account and SignOut. Take a look at it here:
The Profile and Friends links give you easy access to your own profile and your list of friends. In "More" you'll find most of the things that used to be in the Nav (Forums, Groups, Classifieds, for example). All the features moved into "More" were not clicked on too often, so they've been de-emphasized in the menu.
Some of the menu items (mail, profile, friends and more) have drop down menus (indicated by the arrows). The drop downs contain new links that weren't in the menu before - such as "Compose a Message" or "Who's Online" under Friends. We moved "My Account" to the nav because there are very important commands there that people tend to not know about, such as spam protections and notification settings.
Probably the biggest change is putting the status & mood into the header. This allows you to update your status & mood at any point while on the site. I'm considering making this one optional - i.e. you could set in your account settings whether you want to have your status updates available in the nav. Note the status updates would NOT show up in the nav when you are viewing other people's profile pages, or when you're on your homepage, since you can already change the status & mood from your home.The search bar remains so that you can search for friends and content on MySpace from any page.
Here is a screenshot of the new nav with the ad on top, and with a page on the site below it:
One last word, here's the commands that are in the submenus:
Mail: Compose, Sent Mail, Saved Mail, Address Book
Profile: Edit Profile, My Comments, My Photos, My Videos, My Blogs, My Schools, My Favorites
Friends: Online Friends, Friend Requests, Friend Updates, Mood/Status, Favorites, Browse Friends, Find Friends (Search), Invite Friends
More: Forums, Groups, Classifieds, Events, Top Blogs, IM, Mobile, Comedy, Film, Games
Let me know what you think. I'm eager to hear your feedback.
3:22 PM
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