Sorry mate, here's the URL: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/navigation.h tml#menus
Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st Website: www.accessibility1st.com.au -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin French Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] *sigh* drop-downs Hi all, I'm quoting for a client at the moment who seems to have her heart set on dropdown menus for the sites navigation. I've implemented such menus before, and am currently using a version of the Suckerfish menus [1], which is fine for a one-deep hierarchy, but it looks like she wants 3-4 levels of depth in the menus, which is going to: - significantly increase development time and testing time - decrease browser compatibility & accessibility I would also speculate that menus with such deep hierarchy would confuse and distract users. But we all know how difficult it is to convince a client that they're wrong, especially when they see huge hierarchical menus on other corporate sites. So instead, I'd like to read up (and point her to) any studies conducted in terms of their usability in context of website navigation, perhaps even compared to other forms of navigation. I have no doubt that such menus ARE usable (we use them every day in Windows, Mac OS, etc), but as pointed out recently on this list (or another?), the menus in our OS are not *navigational* -- they're *functional*. I'm confident I can provide simple, smart navigation without them, but first I need to find some solid proof that they're a bad idea :) --- Justin French http://indent.com.au ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
