Hi,
I totally agreed with what boylikegirls said and I thought that we/you were taking a wrong way (or retro as he said), so I’m happy that you corrected it and the navigation bar looks much better now. We also have to think about mobile and having a top navbar is clearly a no go for it. In opposite the sidebar will be really good on mobile too. Just a question concerning this. Do you plan to make this sidebar a real sidebar and not only a panel as it is now? Or more precisely will it be usable in both desktop and mobile without too much changes to the code.
Cheers,