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03/09/2007, 08h42

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:45:44 +0000 (UTC), Steve Sobol put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>On 2007-09-02, Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
>> The purpose of navigation is not to look nice. The purpose of
>> navigation is to make it easy for users to navigate! Some basic visual
>> enhancements, such as CSS hover attributes, will both make it look
>> nicer and add usability, but excessive styling on your primary
>> navigation should be avoided.
>
>Why not just add regular hyperlinks somewhere on the page?

That's a partial solution, and it's certainly the right one if the
primary navigation uses Javascript. But the single most important
factor in the design of your primary navigation is that it is easy and
intuitive to use. Flash-based navigation almost always breaks that, as
it presents the links and menu in a way that is visually different to
how most people expect websites to look. In other words, it's not just
bad for people (and SE spiders) that can't view Flash, it's also bad
for those who can, as it's less intuitive to use than HTML/CSS links.
Even when well-designed, it often lacks several of the common visual
clues that are present in HTML links, such as the destination of the
link showing in the status bar. When badly designed (and most Flash
navigation bars are badly designed, from a usability perspective!), it
becomes almost counter-intuitive and off-putting to the casual user.

Mark
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03/09/2007, 08h42	#7
Mark Goodge Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Shockwave button generator - not visible to all platforms? On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:45:44 +0000 (UTC), Steve Sobol put finger to keyboard and typed: >On 2007-09-02, Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote: >> The purpose of navigation is not to look nice. The purpose of >> navigation is to make it easy for users to navigate! Some basic visual >> enhancements, such as CSS hover attributes, will both make it look >> nicer and add usability, but excessive styling on your primary >> navigation should be avoided. > >Why not just add regular hyperlinks somewhere on the page? That's a partial solution, and it's certainly the right one if the primary navigation uses Javascript. But the single most important factor in the design of your primary navigation is that it is easy and intuitive to use. Flash-based navigation almost always breaks that, as it presents the links and menu in a way that is visually different to how most people expect websites to look. In other words, it's not just bad for people (and SE spiders) that can't view Flash, it's also bad for those who can, as it's less intuitive to use than HTML/CSS links. Even when well-designed, it often lacks several of the common visual clues that are present in HTML links, such as the destination of the link showing in the status bar. When badly designed (and most Flash navigation bars are badly designed, from a usability perspective!), it becomes almost counter-intuitive and off-putting to the casual user. Mark -- http://www.MotorwayServices.info - read and share comments and opinons "So rock and roll, so corporate suit"