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.
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dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
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