Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/03/2002 09:22:36 AM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Cool, feedback :) Where do u think it needs more whitespace - between > > 'menus' or 'items'? > > Personally, I like putting the sidebar menus on the right, so they are > near the scrollbar. Then if the page is a little wide, its the menu that > gets pushed off rather than the content. This also can also let you > reduce the gutter between the columns (as you have already done, without > it looking quite as squished. And, I believe, if the page is being > "viewed" with a screen reader, this puts the navigation after the > content, since the reader would read the columns left to right.
I'm not sure I buy the whole navigator on the right side deal, but good comments anyway. > I don't know if the menu has to be in an actual HTML list, which tends > to indent things a little much. I'd either use non-breaking spaces > (which are apparently not permitted right now) or a tranparent GIF to > indent them. Any reason non breaking spaces aren't permitted? > I haven't tried to do it yet, but it would also be nice to have > different sidebar menus for sub-areas of the main site, like the > volunteer guides area, the PMC area, and some other places where we are > using page links instead of putting up a new sidebar. It'd also be good to have some standardisation on the menus for projects/subprojects.... Any ideas? Mine are up at the previously mentioned URL. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://www.multitask.com.au/developers
