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« on March 4th, 2012, 07:04 PM »
While I'd love Wedge to be the base of sites, I know that a significant number of users will be using it as an extra feature on a site they already run, as evidenced by the number of people who want to change where the home tab on the main menu goes.

What I would suggest then is to provide a space to enter a URL into. If the box is empty, all is as it is now, but if the box is filled with a URL, we should put that into the title heading (instead of scripturl) and we should tweak the menu, home would point just to this URL, and what was the home tab will become a "Community" tab with drop downs as we have now.

Thoughts?

(FWIW, XenForo does this.)
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« Reply #1, on March 4th, 2012, 07:28 PM »
yep, makes sense.
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« Reply #3, on March 4th, 2012, 07:57 PM »
Or as an entry in the popup menu for Home? Like when you're on a board.

Maybe also have the main site as the top breadcrumb.
And say Forum instead of Community?

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Re: Home button
« Reply #4, on March 4th, 2012, 08:03 PM »
If that were to happen, I'd still make the top level item linking to the main site, then the forum index to be the first item dropdown. (Doing it as a separate tab makes more semantically accurate)

We could do that for the breadcrumb trail in which case, I'd probably make it Site Name > Forum.

I also think Forum is more formal than Community and honestly Community is preferable to me.

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« Reply #5, on March 4th, 2012, 09:50 PM »
People may also want to hide the Forum link or rename it. Eg default_index is set to a specific board used as a blog and they just want to link to the blog.

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Re: Home button
« Reply #6, on March 4th, 2012, 10:47 PM »
Well, that's the thing... if there's no link specified, it would just be the 'Home' tab as it stands now, without any changes.

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« Reply #7, on March 5th, 2012, 02:39 AM »
I like this idea a whole heck of allot. I am okay with Community over Forum, I would assume it could be changed in the lang files anyway.
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« Reply #8, on March 5th, 2012, 02:41 AM »
Well, yeah, it would always be changeable in the language files, but the idea of having the separate buttons is the real point here.

It would also, ironically, simplify the work a portal would have to do, too.

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« Reply #9, on March 5th, 2012, 02:54 AM »
What I meant was its not like it would be hard for people to change the word Community to forum or what ever they wanted. if you added this feature and choose community.

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Re: Home button
« Reply #10, on March 5th, 2012, 02:57 AM »
*nods* Indeed not, especially as I'm planning to make the language editor more prominent than it currently is (though I have other matters to solve as far as that goes)

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« Reply #11, on March 6th, 2012, 10:12 AM »
Quote from godboko71 on March 5th, 2012, 02:54 AM
What I meant was its not like it would be hard for people to change the word Community to forum or what ever they wanted. if you added this feature and choose community.
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« Reply #12, on March 6th, 2012, 02:32 PM »
Lanuague editor will work in this area. I like 'Community' by default.
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Re: Home button
« Reply #13, on March 6th, 2012, 05:48 PM »
:whistle:

Needs an icon for the new 'home' tab because all I've done is created a new extra tab rather than messed with the current home tab, as it were. I'm thinking some kind of 'up' or 'diagonally up/left' arrow to indicate up to the main site?

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Re: Home button
« Reply #14, on March 10th, 2012, 01:26 PM »
So, if the house icon stays with the forum menu, what should the icon for the overall site (Home) button be?
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