[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

[russ at bluechromedesign.com]

> James Kalbach et al have thoroughly covered this
> ground, here's the study:
> Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and
> Right-justified Site Navigation Menus
> <http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Kalbach/>

Not to mean offense, but the example noted is an Audi site, and is a
couple of years dated.  The automotive websites tend to be less common and
rather industry and task specific, if not target audience specific (and in
this case, that's high-end consumer automobiles)--not that they shouldn't
be; the study holds water for that industry and perhaps that group of
users--but doesn't lead me to believe that what they learned at that point
in time shouldn't be a) updated given the updated technologies and lower
barriers to entry into the home PC market, as well as those updated OS and
other items and b) performed on some other industry, perhaps one that has
a survey of a core group of users that asks them, exactly, what they
primarily use the web for.

I have doubts that a different sampling would give dramatically different
results today.

> It was also discussed here a couple years ago:
> <http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/0203/0481.html>

And every good discussion deserves to be re-hashed and re-thought through,
as well.  A couple of years in internet space is almost 27 in human years,
and a lot can happen in that time.  Just ask my 8-track player.  :-)