Posted by dorayme on 06/07/07 23:01

In article <5cr692F2vsmbjU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> El Kabong wrote:
> >
> > clients, for some strange reason, like "gizmos"
>
> "The client is always right" is a fallacy.
>
> > it would be great if there was a
> > way to "latch" the submenu in a similar fashion to Adrienne's asp menus. My
> > problem is that I don't use asp
>
> You don't need asp. You can do the job in any server-side language, even
> with basic server-side includes. If server-side stuff isn't your cup of
> tea, get a preprocessor and generate it all locally, then upload static
> web pages.

Bergamot's view on this is quite sound. I have always thought
that users are as likely or more to get confused by a big menu as
not. For those who want to take some overall view, a site map is
a good way to go and is even quite a useful thing for an author
to make to give an overall view of structure.

There is another way to keep clutter and confusion off the
navigation system: provide a good search site facility. The user
usually does not simply want to see what is on your site without
a question in his or her mind, that is where a search box can
come in handy.

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dorayme

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