Hi Ron,
I've seen some pretty good menu system over at ProjectSeven.com
Specially these 2 might be of interest...
http://www.projectseven.com/viewer/index.asp?demo=tmm http://www.projectseven.com/viewer/index.asp?demo=mm2
They are quite accessible and degrades gracefully with javascript turned of.
Kim
Pringle, Ron wrote:
Hello all-
I am in the process of redeveloping a large, content heavy municipal site. There is an extraordinarily large amount of information on the current site, and a large number of departments that need to be represented in the navigation.
I've used the Son Of Suckerfish code to build out a flyout menu system. Works great, looks nice. However, some of the menus get as many as five layers deep. I'm concerned about usability (by regular and impaired users), especially on small screen real estate. My biggest problem with it is the depth of the submenus, how easy it is to slip off a menu 3 layers deep and lose your place and the fact that the menus don't remain visible for a few seconds after mousing off them.
I'm looking for a review of the navigation along with opinions and suggestions, within the following constraints:
1. This site is templated via a single master template in DW. I would prefer NOT to have to use more than the one template for the site, as it will exponentially increase my workload with each additional section/template.
2. I've looked at the vertically expanding/collapsing menu systems, and have pretty much ruled them out for use on my site for a variety of reasons.
Ideas, criticisms, suggestions and opinions welcomed.
http://www.aurora-il.org/testsite/index.htm
Only the first 3 menu items in the vertical nav have been flushed out.
Regards, Ron
p.s. for a good laugh, look at the current site at http://www.aurora-il.org
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