On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:56 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:58 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote: > > > Maybe it's useful to remember that the products.html page was in the > > 'About' section: The navigation of the product pages needs some serious > > thought unless we want to go deeper than a 3 level navigation or make > > 'Products' a top-level item. > > When I was writing my BSc thesis on accessible CMSs, I did some research > on navigation. According to [1] the optimal size for a menu is about 5-7 > entries, and that they are preferably "shallow", so avoid deep > hierarchies.
This is indeed pretty standard usability advice, although as usual with this sort of thing it's not completely cut and dried. Some more useful analysis/references here: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/apr03.asp . Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list