Fly-Out Menus

Can this hurt spidering?

[mdean]

Does anyone know if using a flyout menu can hurt or benefit when pages are spidered. Also, does it hurt pageload if its shtml or another format?

[jo1ene]

CSS or JS?

I would say that JS is not a grat choice. CSS is fine.

[incrediBILL]

I always recommend all the menu links appear again, on the bottom of a page somewhere (home page is nice) or on a sitemap.

[mdean]

what about dhtml?

[larryhatch]

What is a "Fly out menu"?

[PatrickDeese]

> What is a "Fly out menu"?

[google.com...]

[larryhatch]

Thanks. I take it a fly-out-menu is much the same as a drop-down menu
except it flies out instead of just dropping.

[stever]

(Sorry, one of my bugbears on WW...)

When we talk about javascript menus, we need to define what we are talking about, as some members take it to mean all menus that are activated by javascript.

If we are talking about menus with links in javascript, the search engines have a hard time following them.

If we are talking about (and it seems that we are here) menus which are activated by javascript but where the links are perfectly normal (e.g. what is normally termed dhtml) then search engines have no problem dealing with those links, in my experience.

tedster and others have posted about usability and conversion problems with fancy menu systems and that is something that should be considered with an e-commerce site - but isn't actually the point raised here.

Another off-topic issue is whether the menus degrade (in other words, are usable) if javascript is inactive.

[Corey Bryant]

You might try the Brothercake menu or suckerfish menus for better compatibility and spidering

-Corey