Posted by Rik on 08/21/06 08:00

rf wrote:
> "Rik" wrote:
>> Greg N. wrote:
>
>>> But it is not surprising that these eytracking studies show little
>>> attention to the right hand side of web pages, because most web
>>> pages don't have much there to look at. To conclude that right
>>> hand menus would be inferior is daring.
>>
>> Not really inferior, not at all actually. However, since people are
>> 'trained' to scan in an F-like pattern, and the internet public is
>> very fast in leaving a site, you could well lose some visitors who
>> cannot spot you navigation in a split second. Ergonomically there is
>> nothing wrong with
>> it.
>
> Perhaps actually superior. If the *content* is on the left then you
> grab your audience straight away. This of course assumes that the
> relevant content *is* on the front page.
>
> What is more eye catching, some jucy information or a bunch of links
> to elsewhere in the site?

Well, you've got a point. It depends on the sight I suppose, wether people
normally come in on the frontpage, wether they mean to read the whole site,
or just some singe page that got returned by a search. There is no
definitive answer I think.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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