On 29/03/2010 13:20, Christopher Done wrote:
On 29 March 2010 11:19, Simon Marlow<marlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is the footer necessary? I dislike sites that have too many ways to
navigate, and the footer looks superfluous. The footer will probably be off
the bottom of the window in any case, which reduces its usefulness as a
navigation tool.
Footer navigations are a way to provide a bit of a sitemap without
cluttering the top nav, good for SEO, and to provide the user with an
overview of the hierarchical structure of the site on every page.
IMHO, these aren't compelling reasons. Note that already on your page
there is an inconsistency between the tabs at the top and the headings
at the bottom: I don't know where to look to find the content I want.
Put the navigation in one place.
A sitemap: sitemaps are for robots. If you're worried about cluttering
up the page, use drop-down menus.
SEO: we shouldn't compromise the usability or appearance of the site for
SEO. If we do it right, SEO takes care of itself - and it's not like we
care that much about SEO here, we're not competing with other sites to
sell you Haskell.
According to the W3C, headings are easily navigable with a
screenreader; as someone using assistive technologies I'd get
something like:
Welcome to Haskell.org
Events
Learning
Headlines
Latest Packages
Quick Links
Download
Community
Wiki
Reports
Making this work right is an important goal, I agree.
Cheers,
Simon
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