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I always read about sound internal structure. Everybody's talking about the way the structure of the site should be: that way, this way....
what's the best way of setting menus in pages?
How can i obtain the best structure?
THANKS!
what's the best way of setting menus in pages?
How can i obtain the best structure?
Defining the best of anything is a bit problematic. My best might not be desirable for someone else.
I base the answers to your questions off my user comments, and from web designers who've visited the site and think they have something to offer.
My users are very happy with my navigation. I make sure the top of each page contains my menus. Others like the menus to in the left column, others the right, some still at the page bottom. I also believe uniformity is an issue. Every page on my site contains a virtually identical menu structure. There are some who would never use this approach, I'm sure.
I had one designer write to say my page looked 'cluttered'. In fact, it did. So I re-wrote my menus, spread them out a bit, used a slightly larger font, and took them out of 'boxes'. The result is pretty nice, IMO. (I need to write that designer and say thanks.)
I think this sort of thinking about the internal structure of the site is something that should be done before you even sit down at the computer. People who come to web site design often think of the "design" part as the graphics that we add to the site to make it more informative or (too often) merely pretty. In reality the "design" part is the close meshing of the user's expectations with what the site delivers and how it is organized.
