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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: two menus for all kde.org subsites?
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-03-09 13:06:11
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On Sunday March 09, 2003 04:47, Chris Howells wrote:
> On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:44, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Two menus are more than twice as hard to navigate as one menu.  A
> > single menu allows the user to find one menu and read down the list.
> >
> > Two menus require the user to find both menus, decide which to read,
> > then read down the list.  If the user chose wrongly, the user must
> > read down the second list.
>
> People read from left to right. The context menu is on the left.

Then the right link won't be seen, so chuck it.

> The right menu merely allows people to find other sites in the family,
> which makes sense for the homepage of kde.org sites.

We have two menus on the top page to make it a navigation page.  We give a 
link to the top page on the other pages.  To turn every other page into a 
navigation page becomes redundant.

Even worse: in a case like multimedia, a large family menu will dominate 
the whole page!

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
 -- Gandhi
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