Updating Our Menus: New Site Navigation
A lot of the best chefs change their menus to reflect the seasons and to emphasize their most popular dishes. So we're doing the same thing! Here are a few tweaks we've made to the main navigation at the top of every page on Serious Eats, to help you get around the site more easily and maybe even discover some things you might have missed:
- We changed the order of the links at the top of the page so that the most popular items (Home, Talk, Recipes) are first
- All of the "Required Eating" content is seamlessly folded into the rest of the site. So, we've removed that tab, making room for a cool addition:
- Columns! We know a lot of you love the recurring features on the site, so now all of these weekly columns are just a click away
As always, we want to hear what you think. If you've got suggestions or complaints about the changes we've made, let us know in the comments and we'll keep adjusting the site to be an even better home for Serious Eaters.
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14 Comments:
Love it. You guys just keep getting better and better.
simon at 9:05PM on 08/11/08
Very cool...thanks for the new menu! The columns tab is really a good update.
JEP at 9:21PM on 08/11/08
love how you guys keep us happy! SE rocks!
foodiemama at 9:30PM on 08/11/08
Very Cool! But, when are you going to address the timeline issues???
izatryt at 9:34PM on 08/11/08
@izatryt: It's in our queue. patience! :)
Alaina Browne at 9:47PM on 08/11/08
It really is a cool addition! Love it, love it, love it! Thanks for the new menu! Now, if we could get that edit button...:-)
brooke29 at 12:55AM on 08/12/08
Why can't we see the recent posts when in a topic?
izatryt at 9:35AM on 08/12/08
Never mind. I figured it out.
izatryt at 9:39AM on 08/12/08
Cool! I have a question. I mostly skim/read SE via my Google Reader, but that only pulls in the columns and whatnot... does "Talk" have its own RSS? I see some good topics usually but via Eater's Board Wrap instead of via SE's rss feed... just curious. Maybe I'm doing something wrong =)
feistyfoodie at 10:40AM on 08/12/08
@feistyfoodie: There is indeed a Talk RSS feed.
Raphael at 10:49AM on 08/12/08
I'm glad to have the columns button. However, I always found it annoying that you couldn't browse the posts in a column back past one screen. For instance, if you click on Cocktail Concoctions, the oldest post shown is March 13, 2008, even though the column was running before then. Is there a way to get a link to older posts or something at the bottom of the page, so we you could read everything that had been written in the column?
Enmalkm at 4:48PM on 08/12/08
Am I missing the "blog roll" that used to be in the Required Eating section?
Kerosena at 2:49PM on 08/13/08
@Kerosena: We moved our "blog roll" to a dedicated Links page.
Raphael at 3:51PM on 08/13/08
@Enmalkm : We totally hear you. I went ahead and set up most of the columns to be date-based (and not a single page) so you can read the entire archives of the columns. For example: Cocktail Concoctions goes all the way back to July 2007 now.
Raphael at 8:24PM on 08/13/08