Re: side menu

Greetings

I remember from University days ('tho I've lost the actual references 
and the web wasn't invented then!) that the Latin alphabets reading 
left to right is why dictionaries, indexes and navigation of any 
kind, developed the way they did: generally the reference 
(navigation) is on the left and the definition (content) is on the 
right. Readers find it easier to go repeatedly from one to the other, 
that way round.

If it's the kind of content that visitors will scan rather than read 
carefully and the navigation is a short list, I would think right 
hand nav would be fine. If the content does need reading in some 
depth and the nav list is more than say 6 -7 items, then I'd prefer 
to use left hand navigation.

Just my thoughts.

Cheers.
Freda
-- 
Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no 
manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to 
operate the spaceship. - Richard Buckminster Fuller. 

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