Re: [WSG] drop down menus - long

[Tania Lang]

Terrence Wood wrote: Surely, aren't browser bookmarks the mechanism to provide regular users access to deep content, rather than burden occasional users with a sitemap on every page? (Or better yet make a sitemap page :) Tania - not quite sure I understand what you mean by sitemap on every page.  I believe every large site should have a sitemap page accessible from anywhere in the site.  With browser bookmarks, the repeat users of the site in question have many pages bookmarked but they are also out of the office a lot and access the site a lot in the classroom and workplaces using other people's computers. On 4 Aug 2005, at 9:56 PM, Frederic Fery wrote: the reference is from 2003, is it likely that people behaviour would have changed since? (ie people more used to fly out?) Terrence Wood. No. Generally speaking usability is a pretty stable field, it's only the coding techniques that change. Tania - Generally agree.  Usability tools and techniques are fairly stable as is most user behaviour.  However, as users become more Internet savvy both myself and others in the field have observed changes in user behaviour.  For instance, users have increasingly learnt workarounds to overcome poor usability or common design flaws that used to trip them up in the past.  An example of this is scrolling which users are much better at now (users are less likely to miss content now below the fold as long as it is obvious there is more content there). See the resources section of my website for links to articles on menus and information architecture.  http://www.peakusability.com.au/resources/informationarchitecture.htm Re more recent articles, I am not aware of any but I will post to usability forums and see if I get any response. Regards Tania Lang Peak Usability Brisbane, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.peakusability.com.au PH: 0419 732142