User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-5558012-20141020234759

"Such an experience effectively necessitates a couple things - that search should be in the global nav and that the nav should have a visually consistent Wikia theme."
 * I understand the need for consistency, but the global nav needs to have some kind of design other than white nothingness.

"Shrink the overall height of the nav and tighten up the elements within"
 * I see this as the best option as the others do little or nothing about the size. It's too big regardless of whether it doesn't scroll.