Re: www.debian.org Web Design

[Richard Atterer <richard@2005.atterer.net>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:19:28AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Having the navigation on the right looks good to me.

This is an old issue for discussion when it comes to web usability:

- Advantage of right-hand navigation: The navigation is near the browser's 
  scroll bar, so no large mouse movements are necessary.  
- Disadvantage: People are used to the de-facto standard with left-hand nav
- Disadvantage: A user's gaze "enters" the page from the left (for 
  left-to-right writing), so when people scan the page for information, 
  they don't find the navigation as quickly.

Cheers,

  Richard

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