March 2nd, 2009 12:00 am
this is how we should do it.
who told you to put your navigation on the top or on the left? and more importantly are you getting more conversions from it? are you selling more products on your internet storefront from putting your navigation on left or top? the only thing you are used to doing is looking up at the number 1 result. this is not the same as how you navigate. they put it on top because it was the only place they could put it. we no longer look at sheets of paper, we look through a viewport. in Windows your navigation is on the bottom. you say: on the bottom is not where i am used to seeing navigation on the internet. what! we do not know what we are used to seeing on the internet. it has only really been around for 10 years. only 10 years. Google has only been for around 10 years. what do you think is going to happen in another 10 years? when you watch CNN on television where is the additional news ticker and the logo? the important stuff is where your eyes want to be - up. mobile device, its not perfect yet and things aren't as they appear. the bot reads the document from top to bottom.
and fyi - the internet and the television will combine.
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