Comments on: Right hand Web navigation http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/ A Blog About Technology, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Internet Marketing And More. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:36:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Andre SC http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-33096 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:20:41 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-33096 Right hand nav makes sense from a usability perspective, especially on pages longer than a screen for one because that is the side where we expect to find a scroll bar - another navigation tool, + usually it's more important to make sure content immidiately accesible 'findable' at a glance and readable. Some research seems to sugest that navigation bars will tend to become less 'persistent' Interesting topic Right hand nav makes sense from a usability perspective, especially on pages longer than a screen for one because that is the side where we expect to find a scroll bar - another navigation tool, + usually it’s more important to make sure content immidiately accesible ‘findable’ at a glance and readable.

Some research seems to sugest that navigation bars will tend to become less ‘persistent’

Interesting topic

]]> by: Arthur http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-33001 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:54:50 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-33001 <em>This is also a SEO thing, as the bots tend to read from left to right.</em> No. Unless you were joking... This is also a SEO thing, as the bots tend to read from left to right.

No. Unless you were joking…

]]> by: Paul OFlaherty http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-32985 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:56:11 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-32985 This is also a SEO thing, as the bots tend to read from left to right. Hence you want your content to appear before your navigation elements on your site. This is also a SEO thing, as the bots tend to read from left to right. Hence you want your content to appear before your navigation elements on your site.

]]> by: Jason Lefkowitz http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-30913 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:59:28 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2006/12/19/right-hand-web-navigation/#comment-30913 <a href="http://www.jasonlefkowitz.net/" rel="nofollow">I've</a> proudly been right-hand-nav only since 2002 :-) Mostly this was for accessibility purposes -- put the navigation after the main content for screenreaders. I’ve proudly been right-hand-nav only since 2002 :-)

Mostly this was for accessibility purposes — put the navigation after the main content for screenreaders.

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