For a long time I’ve had a menu at the top of each SQL Saturday event. This has looked like this:
This has worked well, with a “return” below each section. That was a design decision that made sense to me. Each section had this below it, which you can see a few examples of this below:
As I constantly update events and check things on pages, I wondered why do I need to go to the top of the page? If I’m checking sponsors, why not be able to link to the CFS quickly? Or the contacts?
I made a change. Pull request 632 does this, by repeating the TOC code in multiple places. Ideally I’d have this as an include of some sort, but I don’t want to refactor this code right now. Plus, I haven’t changed the TOC in over a year, so why not just copy it.
This is the new look.
Comments welcome.
Reminders
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