just a quite note, ourbrisbane.com is not my site i am just a user, living there now!
> Has anyone done any user testing on drop downs? Tania maybe? yes, would be interesting On 8/4/05, John Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frederic, > > > how would you rate http://www.ourbrisbane.com/ which is using a mix of > > drop down menu and apparent second level navigation. > > > > It could be seen as a solution to make everyone happy!? > > Its probably straying a little from Web standards directly, onto > usability issues, but still within best practices. I would like to > see all such menus as dead and buried as the blink element. > > I have not done extensive user testing on these kinds of menus. > However, since the beginning of time, in app development, the > recommendation has always been to use submenus carefully and > sparingly, if in doubt, don't. While these are superficially > analogous to main menus, I think in reality they are more like sub > menus, so this well tested observation is worth keeping in mind. > > In the case of this site, I'd be inclined to ditch the drop downs, > and have their contents on the pages you visit when you click What's > on, and so on. Which is what actually happens, but confusingly, when > you get to these pages, you get both. > > What happens if a user does a find (cmd-f) for some text that is in > one of the drop downs? I note that in your site a lot of it is > repeated, but otherwise, bnothing shows up. Users often use this > technique for finding something - another good reason to avoid Image > Replacement techniques also. > > Has anyone done any user testing on drop downs? Tania maybe? > > I'd be interested to know wether users use these, or avoid them like > the plague - or don;t even notice them, afterall, how are we supposed > to know they are flyout or dropdown menus? > > HTH > > john > > John Allsopp > > style master :: css editor :: http://westciv.com/style_master > support forum :: http://support.westciv.com > blog :: dog or higher :: http://blogs.westciv.com/dog_or_higher > > Web Essentials web development conference http://we05.com > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- Web: http://anna.loic.free.fr Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) <a href="callto://fredericfery>Skype</a> ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
