Joel wrote:
Boris wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
OK I've done more changes/improvements. It's now a fluid layout. Since no one except Dave had suggestions on what to I went with his idea of two (mostly equal) columns. In this case the left is fluid the right is fixed.
I also removed everything except the latest release information. For the simple reason that more than that make the page unnecessarily long. After all anything older than the latest version isn't "Latest News". http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/index.htm
I just glanced at the layout and strongly suggest to move the navigation bar to the left side. The webpage is adhering to W3C standards and should follow usability standards, too. At least I don't know many websites with a right-handed navigation bar?
I like it at the right. I don't see any reason why it can't be in the right. Could you give us a link to a W3C reference that says navigation bars should be in the left?
While I don't know of any clear recommendation to put a navigation bar not on the right side in my opinion it violates Jakob Nielsen's rule "Do the same as everyone else" (see #10 of "Ten Good Deeds in Web Design" at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html). There have been some links posted to websites that have the navigation on the right side. However I would rather follow the mainstream. Look at all the explorer-style windows in your operating system: Navigation is always on the top and on the left. If you really want to make an exception and put the navigation bar on the right side you need a strong reason to come up with something unusual. Boris