Web Navigation
A web site can be as beautiful and interesting as they come, if it hard or impossible to navigate around it, visitors won't stay. A logical, easy to grasp navigation is a must to make a web site a success. The following articles show tips and tricks on how you can design web site navigation and what to avoid.
Flexible CSS Tab Navigation - 15th Januar 2006
Learn how to create a flexible tab navigation with CSS and one rounded corner background image (published at locally)
Navigation - our visitor's travel guide - 22nd September 2005
This article compares real life navigation aids to those we use on the web and invites the reader to keep web navigation as simple and helpful. (published at evolt.org)
YADM - Yet another dynamic menu - June 2004
This "article" is a copy of the YADM homepage. (published at Devarticles.com)
Conjuring site navigation - June 2004
A JavaScript-trick to automatically add a navigation dropdown to the page. The navigation gets populated by the LINK data in the document, thus enhancing browsers that don't do that. Comes with a PHP example, too. (published at Alistapart.com)
Dynamic Elements - cloak and dagger web design - September 2004
Dynamic elements make web pages more fun, more interactive and allow us to make pages more usable - if we have CSS, Javascript and a mouse at our disposal. This article discusses some uses of dynamic page elements with accessibility and usability in mind and shows where they fail and what to do to make them better. You can view this article in a local version, that gets maintained more frequently. (published at Evolt.org)
Learn to let go - May 2004
Accessibility is only partly a problem of technology. It is also a mindset. This article and tool describes how you can empower your users to change your site for their needs. (published at Evolt.org)
An explorer script with no need for ID - October 2003
A script that turns a nested unordered list into a collapsible and expandable explorer tree. This article covers the basic functionality of Puredom Explorer. (published at )
Collapsible page elements with DOM - November 2002
This article explains how to collapse and expand a part of a page via DOM without disturbing the accessibility of the document. The article lead to the release of the DOMCollapse script. (published at Evolt.org)
