Good points. Eventually this will live on mobile devices as a premium service so it will have to work well for those. I currently have it styled with expanding sections that will show one or more at the same time. But I kinda like tabs so I was thinking of redoing it. I suppose I could give the user a choice of which view they prefer.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > there are really 2 kinds of expandable menus. and which you mean might > change my answer. > > one allows one OR MORE area to be expanded at once. > one allows only one open at a time. > > the first allows me to open multiple at once, and look at more than one at > once. > the second is just like a tab in that you page between the sections. > > if the content is truly separate, and needs never be shown together, > the tabs or single menu at a time makes sense. in that case, I too > prefer tabs, but tabs only work well in small numbers, and with very > short and different labels. If there are too many content areas, or > the labels are too long, or there isnt enough horizontal real estate > to show the tabs (can you say mobile screen width) the collapsible > menus work better for me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338520 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
