- I think fly out menus on Web pages just don't Feel Good (not to
mention the debatable usability problems they might introduce
[2]).
See Mike D.'s comments on that article which pretty much sums
up my rationale and implementation.
Still not convinced, but that's just me. We don't have such a
deep structure or information density, I would simply put a
context navigation on the left (or right) for each section but
not on the homepage, like on this two pages:
<http://www.mozilla.org/support/>
<http://www.mozilla.org/about/>
Very simple.
Not really. Just the opposite actually, confusing. My design is
certainly more "simple" than mozilla's. Inconsistent page layout.
I like sites that have a consistent layout throughout, including
the homepage. It's confusing when the navigation changes on a page
by page basis. In my case there's no scheme that the user has to
*get*.
I agree that the consistency is a hight priority (nevertheless I
find mozilla.org pretty user friendly).
I also think a *visible* 2nd level navigation is very important for
orientation. Maybe we agree on the basic question of a random
visitor on a Web site:
A) Where am I?
B) Where do I come from (or how did I come here)?
C) Where can I go from here?
To answer B the page must either have a navigation system in which
the context is obvious, or at least a breadcrumb navigation trail.
If you have a visible 2nd (and maybe 3rd) level navigation the fly
out menus become redundant. Note: I'm not saying that the
navigation must change on different sections or that the fly out
menus must be disabled to achieve this.
Tonico
I was actually thinking about the idea of having breadcrumbs. I think
that may be a good solution that satisfies consistency and keeps the
clutter down. I agree that B is very important since I'd imagine that
a lot of user will come from search results pages. Does anyone have
any numbers on where people come from and navigate to on the current
zope.org site?
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