Sunday, July 17, 2005

Navigation is on the Menu

There are lots of places we need to get to - wherever we are on the site and so a rationalisation of the navigation has taken place with this ‘rebuild’. To navigate to other places within the school, a menu is permanently situated on the left of the manin content. This is delivered using an unordered list. Advice about this technique came (originally) to my attention through Jeffrey Zeldman’s marvellous Designing with Web Standards. We do not need any sub-menus on this site (although there is potential for this), so each item is tagged as a list item. The containing unordered list is styled with a border and it has a heading delivered as a heading tag. I have, at the moment, enclosed this list in a div in order to control borders and colours, but I suspect that there may be a more efficient way of doing this by styling the unordered list itself.

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