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Re: Which should come first - navigation OR content?

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From: Becky Tindle
Date: Apr 25, 2006 9:10AM

> As to the Stockholm Syndrome: You realise that a lot with Windows
> Users. We are so used to random crashes, that we start defending the
> system when people point that out to us. "Well, it happens, but that
> is normal and there is nothing you can do".

I suppose that is a kink in Human nature that we can accept that which
is intolerable as "normal", in the absence of a viable alternative.

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So are you now saying that it is bad practice to put navigation first - and that content should always come first? From the last few posts quite a few seem to be in agreement on this. If so - I'd like to hear your reasons as I remain undecided at the moment.


Cheers,

Becky

Joshue O Connor < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote: > As to the Stockholm Syndrome: You realise that a lot with Windows
> Users. We are so used to random crashes, that we start defending the
> system when people point that out to us. "Well, it happens, but that
> is normal and there is nothing you can do".

I suppose that is a kink in Human nature that we can accept that which
is intolerable as "normal", in the absence of a viable alternative.

Josh


Christian Heilmann wrote:
>>>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.
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>
> Yes, in this case a lot of developers pushed a lot of navigation in
> the face of the user first for years and years and it is becoming a
> standard. I remember SEO articles from 1999 talking about changing the
> table order to show content first as a good idea. If we hadn't had the
> navigation first and content later as a design pattern for years the
> whole big discussion about skip links would've never happened.
>
> As to the Stockholm Syndrome: You realise that a lot with Windows
> Users. We are so used to random crashes, that we start defending the
> system when people point that out to us. "Well, it happens, but that
> is normal and there is nothing you can do".
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