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Confusing menu

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Confusing menu

6 hours 14 minutes ago
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Thanks for all the work you're doing.  It's a great improvement over the old site.  If I can humbly suggest the following change:

Given that the site can be viewed by members and the public, the Menu could be more consistent.  I see 3 possible views: 

1 - Public view:  (base URL)   About    Meet Our Members    Meetings    Directions    Contact     Resources    Member sign in2 - Member view: (base URL/clubs/1000000xxx/)   My Profile     Meetings     Downloads     Officers&Members     Pages&Links     Public Site    {Username}     Sign out3 - Member view: (base URL)    About    Meet Our Members    Meetings    Directions    Contact    Resources    Club Pages & Links    Member Area    Sign outI've seen this cause confusion with some users:  Clicking the "Club Home" link gives two different URLs, depending on login status.  

The confusion is that when members are logged in, and access the view shown in (3) above (i.e. the base URL), they can't find the agenda, unless they realise they need to click "Member Area".  

I suggest that when logged in, the Base URL ( 489.toastmastersclubs.org/ ) should return not the public view, but the member view.  No need for a "Member Area" link.  In HTML terms, the class="navbar-brand" should always have href="/", not href="/clubs/1000000405/". I think this is what users expect. 

As a fallback, perhaps this can be done with a redirect.  i.e. based on login status, return the public page or the club page. 

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Norman Lorrain
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Re: Confusing menu

4 hours 56 minutes ago
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Except for signing in there is no reason for a member to go the the public site. 

I suggest you get them all to use their dashboard page as their save bookmark
[url] 489.toastmastersclubs.org/clubs/1000000405/ [/url] if they are not signed in it will prompt them to sign in

 
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Brian McDonald DTM
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