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| Aug 13, 2008 8:55 am |
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re: re: re: re: Web Site Issue: Two - Three or Four Columns? |
Bobbi Jo Woods
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In one of his first books on the subject of design, Web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman wrote that some fool one day decided to create a site that had a left hand column for navigation and a right column for contents, and it sort of stuck and others followed that model.
IMHO, there really is no right or wrong way to present a site. There is only the logical or functional way. Figuring out how your viewers will read the content is a good step in finding the best layout.
I read somewhere that for blogs, columns for navigation tend to be on the right side, while, with regular Web sites (which are more heavily visited for quick access to contents within), left hand navigation is best.
I've used both, and also 3 columns for many different sites, as well as your good old one column with horizontal navigation. The simplest designs can sometimes be the best, though, and I'm a firm believer of "less is more", most days.
That said, I don't see anything wrong with having a single horizontal navigation, even IF you have a lot of content on your site.
Having hundreds of pages doesn't necessarily mean they all need to be linked on each and every page of your site, much less all crammed into some column for navigating.
My company site's previous design had 3 columns, but only because I wanted to try to present as much information at a glance, as possible. I don't know if when you are trying to get visitors to focus on the message of your content, if that is a good idea or not.
But I think if you are selling products, it might be good for more than 1 column with different items in each. Dunno. There must be a reason sales are being made from sites that do that, I guess!
-Bobbi Jo
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