RE: [boost] Re: [website] Fluid layout.

From: Matt Sutton (matt.sutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-11 10:32:47

> > I like it at the right. I don't see any reason why it can't 
> be in the 
> > right. Could you give us a link to a W3C reference that says 
> > navigation bars should be in the left?
> 
> While I don't know of any clear recommendation to put a 
> navigation bar not on the right side in my opinion it 
> violates Jakob Nielsen's rule "Do the same as everyone else" 
> (see #10 of "Ten Good Deeds in Web Design" at 
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html). There have been 
> some links posted to websites that have the navigation on the 
> right side. However I would rather follow the mainstream. 
> Look at all the explorer-style windows in your operating 
> system: Navigation is always on the top and on the left. 
> If you really want to make an exception and put the 
> navigation bar on the right side you need a strong reason to 
> come up with something unusual.
> 

Out of curiosity, have you experimented with the look of full
justification for the text?  At least for sentences that span multiple
lines.  I not a web designer, and like most other suggestions this is
purely subjective, but I wonder if a subtly sharper edge on the right
might further instruct one's eye to perform a carriage return/line feed?
Kind of like a newspaper.
Matt Sutton
www.padtinc.com