[spam] Re: [Sigia-l] right hand nav

[Will Schroeder]

Have a look at:

www.jcpenney.com 

- and try it yourself.

Will

Will Schroeder, Principal
User Interface Engineering

> Well, I can't think of any good examples, and there may be a 
good reason for
> that--it may not be a good idea...
> 
> By placing navigation on both sides of the screen, you either need to have
> an implementation that scales to fit the screen (tables or Flash) or you
> create an, IMHO, unnecessary limitation on available real estate in order to
> ensure that your lowest common denominator users will be able to see both
> sides of the screen.  At the same time, you'll be making it difficult for
> users to associate the relationship between the navigation on the right with
> that on the left, since you've got all the web content in the site between
> them.
> 
> There is a reason why nav menus on the left or top have become
> predominant--they scale reasonably well (down or across respectively), and
> users tend to understand them.
> 
> I look forward to seeing any examples from the list that show otherwise :-)
> 
> Barring that, I would recommend keeping all your navigation in one place,
> and instead focus on how content is currently organized at the top level,
> and work on reducing the number of top-level links.  After that, you could
> use some flavor of the Explorer style expanding menus to make the
> menu/submenus more compact.
> 
> -Anders
> 
> On 7/16/02 10:15 AM, Katherine Lumb at KLumb at semaphorepartners.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi all:
> > 
> > I have a client with a very deep site, and I want to break their nav into two
> > sections: main nav on the left, and then secondary nav within deeper sections
> > on the right. My client is extremely resistant to breaking the nav at all,
> > even though  they want to stick with straight HTML and their nav would end up
> > cascading a couple window heights below the fold...
> > 
> > I want to show her some examples to put her mind at ease. Can anyone give me
> > some good examples of a nav that breaks down exactly this way (main nav on
> > left, secondary on right)? She needs to see it exactly (she's very literal
> > minded). Brand name sites would be best -- they'll have greater credibility in
> > her mind. 
> > 
> > Thank you very much,
> > 
> > K
> > 
> >> Katherine K. Lumb   Content Designer
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