[Feature] Navigation menu

[thiphariel]

Hi again.

I wonder if you think about implement a navigation menu for static pages on your theme ? I could be really nice.

Have you some tips if your think your not going add that feature ?

Thanks !

[haydenbleasel]

I think realistically (with the amount of people using Phantom now), I should implement something for this but it'll require a bit of a redesign. I'll leave this issue open and come back soon with some concepts to show you :)

[richard-mckenna]

I've recently started using phantom and would love to see a menu for static pages. Personally, it would be great if it didn't mess with the cleanliness of the page header. Maybe a slide in side menu? Or a hinge effect as seen here http://scotch.io/demos/body-class-menus-hinge

[haydenbleasel]

@spill50 I like the idea of implementing a scale effect with AJAX to turn make the theme more fluid and dynamic. What do you reckon?

[richard-mckenna]

@haydenbleasel as in a transition animation between pages loading? Sounds good. I think something clean and simple would be great. I really like the current effect on the headers when you scroll and they fade out.

[thiphariel]

@haydenbleasel Hey :) Have you some updates for this ? Have you stopped your ghost blog too ? I can't find a demo link anymore...

[haydenbleasel]

@thco Heya :) I haven't had any time to work on this recently hence the lack of progress (but I want to soon). I'm definitely open to a PR if anyone can handle it. And yeah I stopped my Ghost blog a while back, but the theme is being used in enough places:

• http://blog.eumlab.com/
• http://blog.sopamo.de/
• http://kayteh.com/

Etcetera.

[thiphariel]

Ok no problem ! I can't do a PR for that for now cause I'm not really good UI/UX things... I stuck on Casper for now :)

[ghost]

@haydenbleasel hi, any updates on the menu?

[davisonio]

:+1:

[bbabel]

Same here: loving the theme, wanting a menu. Thanks for your work.

[Jarvvski]

Any update towards a menu? Perhaps we need to integrate font awesome. I'll think about it

[zeroby0]

I would love to see that too! And font-awesome!

[nitinthewiz]

Hello @thiphariel @spill50 @Jarvvski,

I'm going to be maintaining the theme from here on out. I'm currently looking at this issue and looking at other Ghost themes to see which style of menu would best suit this theme.

If you've got any more notes/issues/comments for me, it's time to bring them out! 😄

[claviska]

@nitinthewiz I'd love to see Phantom get translated for Postleaf once the nav menu is in place. Happy to help with the HBS ==> Dust.js effort if you need it.

[Jarvvski]

Nice to see a new maintainer @nitinthewiz

[nitinthewiz]

So, I've been looking through the options out there and most Ghost (and WP) themes seem to either do something like the official ghost theme - https://wordpress.org/themes/bookmark/ https://github.com/Dennis-Mayk/Practice

or a subheader kind of a thing - https://wordpress.org/themes/golden/

There's also the more esoteric styles - https://github.com/curiositry/mnml-ghost-theme (the page moves down to reveal the menu) https://github.com/Dennis-Mayk/Practice/ (few menu items, so they sit well at the top, above blog title)

Lastly, is the option I'm leaning towards - keeping the menu at the bottom. This makes it cleaner, allows the users to discover your pages after they've read your post, and is minimally invasive.

Of course, this doesn't lend itself to being a good place to put "About Me" and other links...

Comments?

[claviska]

I'd personally prefer a sidebar over the nav being at the bottom. I'm not sure users will find it intuitive as many have grown accustomed to navs being at the top. Interested to hear other thoughts though.

[nitinthewiz]

A sidebar would certainly be the easiest to accomplish and we can go for as minimal a button as possible...