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In my role of “guy who drifts around the office pretending to look busy” I’ve been overhearing a lot of discussion lately about tabs. The consensus seems to be that tabs are a great method for navigating around websites, except when they’re not.

We’re beginning to realise that there are too many tabs in StepRep. We’re going to be working over the next few months to reduce them. We’ve already taken some steps. This is how you’ve been used to navigating around StepRep:

We’ve always referred to these as “tabs”, even though they kind of look like buttons. Whatever you call them, people found them kind of confusing. Now they’re gone. Next time you sign into StepRep you’ll see a Toolkit with six big chunky buttons:

The idea is to put the main features of the site right up front where you can’t miss ‘em. You’ll notice we’ve created big chunky buttons for the Profile and Settings pages, which were kind of hard to find before.

As Tavis described last week, there’s also a new Help Us Out link on the Toolkit page, which I encourage you to click. You can use it to give us some feedback on the new navigation.

We’ll use this blog to announce future tab reductions as they’re implemented.

In other news…Annabelle Pepster!

Annabelle Pepster

Newcomers to StepRep are sometimes overwhelmed by all the buttons and links. This has been a failing on our part – we offer all sorts of cool features, but we’re sometimes lousy at explaining how to use them. Annabelle should help.

So far she only appears on the Reputation Monitor page, but she’ll be offering guided tours throughout the site as she finds time. Just look for this little link: