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Re: Which should come first - navigation OR content?

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Apr 25, 2006 8:20AM

> Far too often in IT we seem to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

Christian, I think you are mixing up your syndromes ;)
I thought Stockholm Syndrome relates to people who have been kidnapped
and then come around to feel sympathy and support the
kidnapper or their cause, a la Patty Hearst.

I'd say its more a case of idiosyncratic attention.

>> Just because something has been used as a quasi standard for years
>> doesn't make it good practice.

Agreed. So its up to those with the smarts to be able to come up with good solutions
to lead the way. These can then be adopted as best practice and trickle down over time.

Josh


Christian Heilmann wrote:
>>>Recently I stumbled across some research that said since the majority
>>>of sites have been built with Nav 1st then Content, it is more likely
>>>to confuse most users - annoyingly I didnt bookmark the report.
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>>I think Ben makes an good point. Most users do expect to see
>>the Navigation first but this is probably more due to convention/habit/volume.
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> I expect the underground to be delayed and randomly stop every 10
> minutes for 4 minutes without explanations. I don't necessarily like
> it and see it as a necessity though.
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> People also expect layouts not to resize or reorder when their browser
> changes, but it may be a good idea.
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> Far too often in IT we seem to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
> Just because something has been used as a quasi standard for years
> doesn't make it good practice.
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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