On Friday, April 8, 2011 1:32:16 AM UTC-4, pbreit wrote: > > I disagree. I think it's prone to error and not as usable as a simple page. > And it's better to be able to direct people to a URL to login and register. > Twitter is one of the very few that does it like this and they are not known > for usability.
Though not necessarily in a drop-down box, a lot of sites do have the login fields right on the home page (e.g., Facebook), and in many cases, there's also a separate login page for redirects (i.e., you can have both).
