I pulled off my modification today. I’d go into the details, but I don’t want to put anyone to sleep. It took about 4 hours of intense trial-and-error after 2 hours of trying to figure out how to avoid the problems I had at first.
How do you like it?
Nice color on the mouse over menu bar….however is there a way to get it to colapse after the mouse leaves the field? Having the blog menu open makes it so you have to scroll down to see the menu buttons below. Not real difficult but with the longer lists like the archive you can even see the rest of the options…..or maybe this display im using is of a too small a resolution.
Anyway colapsing the menu after mouse over would clean it up a bit.
I am going to be truthful here, and I don’t mean any of this in a rude way… The navigation on the right hand side is really annoying. For usability sake, it just doesn’t work. Breaks a couple of rules (Dont hide linked content, dont move navigation on mouse over, etc).
If you are worried about displaying too much content/links on the page, then maybe you should trim it down a bit? People will click on a link for the quality of the link, not the quantity of them.
Mindkiller,
Thanks. Yeah, that was part of the 2 hour thinking…I have it open on mouseover, and close onclick. I can’t figure out a way to have click do both open and then close…yet.
Aeigelus,
Thanks. I’d rather have sour milk with friends than filet mingon with fakers. You make good points.
How about if I really, really pare down the links, but leave the archives, posts, subscriptions, etc. in the menus?
I really hate the idea of having an A-list and a “gosh, your site just isn’t high enough in my mind to be visible, or on the site at all”-list
Okay, I took the mouseover off until I can figure out what to do.
The big problem I was having with putting the menu along the top was that every time you went down a list and encountered the first hyperlink BEHIND the list, the menu collapsed.
I just had an idea to make a collapse button on the side of the buttons, but that would mean creating a new ‘div’-type area to attach the command to…unsure of how to do that as of yet.
LOL…I just loaded up a test run of the original layout of this template from the creator…it’s almost unrecognizable.