Greetings from the midwest US - as the subject says, I have a site that uses a floating menu bar. It's a menu that sits at the top of the page, horizontal, and when you page down or scroll down, the menu stays right there at the top of the view window. Well, it actually floats back to that position, depending on the speed of your computer and graphics. I have catagories, like for example, Books, you click that and then are given a drop down with 5 choices, books page 1 through 5, same for accessories, click "accessories" on the menu and it drops down a list with the 3 pages of accessories listed. It used scripts, etc.. Complex code which I put in the pages using ASP includes.
The questions are these:
Some love it - really love it and comment on how nice it is. Some don't like it - some have commented that it's "a disctraction".
Ok, those are viewer's opinions, and about evenly split.
With that in mind - question #2: Does this add overhead which will hurt our position with the major search engines?
The code to determine browser and use the correct script files alone is about 20+ lines of JS. Then the menu script is another 100 lines of JS.
It looks and works wonderfully. I love the dropdowns, etc. But I now begin to wonder, will it "bite us in the end", so to speak, pun intended!)
I know that even though the code is not directly in the HTML page, it's still "included" so gets hit be the SEs, correct? Do a LOT of lines of "Script" hurt?
Shadows Papa
