I like menus if they are done right. One thing that makes a menu really shine is content. If a menu does'nt have content it is kind of pointless, because the point of a menu is organizing content. Your menu looks like it has plenty of content. It just does'nt quite fit in graphically. A suggestion would be to first google a photoshop button tutorial. Once you have that knowledge you can start getting creative. The site is a botanical remedy site, so to me that means organic. Right now you have a navy blue/purple buttons with dark magenta background with a light tan forground.
First off I'd drop the background color of the site period and leave it white. Unless you are an experienced graphics designer or have a natural feel for color combinations being used in a proper way background colors on business sites just don't usually jive. You have to tailor all of the graphics to that background color and it is just more pain in the end. Once you see the background is white you realize more possibilties open up. Next after you get a feel of how to create buttons ex: ( http://iris-design.info/photoshop/web-20-style-buttons/) you can create you own style buttons, maybe with an organic plant like feel? Just an idea. You can theme your site around your businesses style. If you feel compatibility is a problem, you can try a css based menu such as this one at dynamic drive : http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/droptabmenu.htm Also you can always keep the menu and just add in a search function. One last note, organic and wildcrafted black, on the dark magnette background is somewhat hard to read. black on any dark color is going to be hard to read. Best of luck to you. -phpninja On 6/21/07, Justin Giboney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the groups opinions about menus? I usually don't use menus on websites, but what are user preferences? The menus on the current site (www.westernbotanicals.com) seem very cluttered to me (besides that they don't work well in Safari). I am thinking about having three buttons across the top, called "Products", "Information", and "About us." With a search box on the right. Each of these pages would then further break down the subject in the content of the page. Justin Giboney www.giboneydesigns.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
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