2010/7/11 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > OK, but will your visitors think it "cool" ? Or would they prefer > to have control over what is concealed and what is revealed.
They sure prefer to have control and I sure prefer to give them that control, to show or hide, and to do, only what is expected to do. I'm not a designer but I like to discuss those matters with them when they first present me the layout to construct. The options were: Either we have this vertical effect, or we had a true accordion solution (that I personally dislike for the same reasons you have pointed), or, as a third solution, the one actually on the forge. As a user, when I'm viewing some images, I would love to have the maximum comfort and space available for them. That was the compromise. Perfect solution, I've never found one. :) But I'm sure keep on trying and that's why I love all the comments I may get. ;) >As one potential visitor to your site, I would find it infuriating > if it insisted on hiding the first two regions just because I > wanted to take a look at the third ... > > ** Phil. Well, here I would say, that I will be very angry as well, but on one condition, if, for some reason, it was important to have (for cross-data proposes or something else), access to both information at the same time. I cannot see a reason for doing so on this context. (that doesn't mean that no one else sees one, of course, still, that is something that I would like to see how the end users will react to that, by thinking out loud), and if it's really a big usability issue, then the vertical portfolio effect will be dropped. K. Regards, Márcio ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
