Email should moved higher in the layout
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While, yes, most email servers do run on Linux so it's not technically incorrect to have it under OS>Linux,... With the shear number of customers who have issues with email, my gut feeling is that mail deserves to have a more accessible section on the front page.
Thoughts?
yes that makes sense. not sure email warrants a top-level billing though. My plan is to remove Webcelerator from the top-level and put it under Networking along with CDN. That will free up a space which can be replaced with a general "Hosting Guidance" section to include things like email, Wordpress etc. There's a lot of stuff currently under Linux that fits better elsewhere!
thanks for getting stuck in @thatdamndog
No worries! Are we limited to 9 top-level sections? Might be nice to have more (less clicks for users to find what they need). Things I can think of: Email, split OSes into their own Linux and Windows sections, put control panels in their own sections... I'm a fan of keeping site navigation as flat as possible, in case that's not clear. :D
Hosting Guidance does fit better for general stuff that doesn't quite fit elsewhere. Looking forward to it.
not limited to 9 sections, but the homepage currently has a 3x3 grid, so we'd need to add another three sections to maintain 3 across i.e 3 columns by 4 rows.
Doing some proper planning on what sections I'd suggest. We could also find some more suitable font icons for the top sections. I appreciate this will probably mean reworking the current layout class grid-container but if we're changing the existing loop up anyway to create a 3*4 layout, it might not be too much more work to make it look swish:
Cloud - fa fa-cloud
Desktop + office - fa fa-desktop
Security - fa fa-lock (or fa fa-key, but I vote lock)
Domains + DNS - fa fa-random
Backups - fa fa-life-saver
High Availability - fa fa-globe
Networks - fa fa-sitemap
Monitoring - fa fa-heartbeat
Windows - fa fa-windows
Linux - fa fa-linux
Mail - fa fa-envelope
General - fa fa-wrench
12 sections and an appropriate icon for each. Thoughts?
@thatdamndog moving this conversation internally as Ben Wilson is doing some work on the back end of docs.ukfast which can help.
I will tag you on the issue.