On 18 Dec 2005, at 9:16 AM, Ted Drake wrote:
Can you imagine being the one stuck with creating this navigation
scheme?
Yes, but worse, can you imagine being stuck using this nav without a
search function?
Now, just to steal your thread Ted, will the fans of drop down menus
please visit this site and actually try to use it. It is a pretty good
example of what to avoid in a main navigation system.
If you don't want to visit it here is my internal dialogue during the
first 10 seconds visiting this site.
Ever so slightly Amazon-esque pre the 'see all 32' tab, but with less
categories. OK so far, what is Ted talking about?
3 levels of tabs? Hmm, anyone who's used Word should feel right at
home. Hopefully they don't reorder the tabs like word when you click
one. OK so far.
[moves mouse to tab]
Oh, how inspired! Tabs and dropdowns... Up to four levels to boot!
Itch? My brain is melting! Where's the search?
To be fair, if you turn off js and just use the tabs and the left hand
navigation, the site navigation is pretty good. But dropdowns? Just say
no.
kind regards
Terrence Wood.
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