On Sunday 03 November 2002 02:52 pm, Jeremy White wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 11:50, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > > On November 3, 2002 12:38 pm, Jeremy White wrote: > > > Yikes. I hadn't understood that the whole menu tree would be > > > visible on the main page. I don't like that at all. > > > 34 choices on the first page is way more than the 7 max > > > I advocate... > > > > Please look at: http://appdb.winehq.com/ > > The menus are expanded, aren't they? And I was hoping we all > > agreed on something, finally. <g> > > But the menus only have 7 main choices, and clicking most of > them bring up submenus in the main page (which is, on reflection, > probably not optimal). > > My understanding was that we were going to use a primary/secondary > menu design. The best example of this I know is www.pack223.org > (my son's cub scout pack web site *blush*). > > You choose an entry from the main menu, and you get a secondary > menu on the sidebar. It is like the Gimp, only the menus > don't expand in place. The primary menu is constant; the > secondary menu varies depending on where you > are in the navigation.
Can we also use some javascript/dhtml to create pop-out menus? If they are well-designed they can be much easier to navigate than by clicking on stuff. I'm sure we could get it to work with Mozilla, Netscape, MSIE, and standards-compliant browsers, and the rest can use a static interface. -- -- Igor