Does my menu work ok or is it awful ?

http://www.uel.ac.uk/afrika-studies/about.htm

Chris.

In article <60A_c.877$mJ4.8591484@news-text.cableinet.net>, Chris.
says...
> Does my menu work ok or is it awful ?
>
> http://www.uel.ac.uk/afrika-studies/about.htm

See for yourself.  THis screen grab shows what it's like all the time:
http://usenet.kibo.org.uk/chris.jpg

Moz. Firefox 0.8

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Chris. wrote:

> Does my menu work ok or is it awful ?

It is awful.

It doesn't slide in in Firefox (Mozilla based browsers have doubled their
market share in the past 9 months). So a large chunk of the page is
entirely inaccessible.

It isn't marked up as a list, when it is a list.

You use some form of JavaScript to change the background of table data
cells, which gives the impression that anywhere is the cell is a viable
click target - however on the text is actually a link.

It is generated from JavaScript, so it is invisible to anybody who turns
JavaScript (which is repeatedly recommended by security companies to users
of Internet Explorer) or uses a browser which doesn't support JavaScript.
(This includes GoogleBot).

You use a Doctype for a non-standard markup language, and the URL you
reference to get the DTD returns a 404 error.

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"Chris." <chris2003@aol.com> wrote:

> http://www.uel.ac.uk/afrika-studies/about.htm

Both. It works, and it is hideously ugly.
It does function.

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On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 08:21:22 +0000, Chris. wrote:

> Does my menu work ok or is it awful ?
>
> http://www.uel.ac.uk/afrika-studies/about.htm
>
> Chris.

What do you think?

For me, it does not work because

1) I think it looks horrid. But it is *almost* appealing.  Not sure what
subtle changes would help it, except maybe removing the "Menu" label on
the right. And getting rid of the salmon colored rollovers, or at least
choosing a different color.

2) It does not work in my gecko-based browser (Mozilla 1.7. Well, I'm
assuming that the menu is supposed to "slide" out of the way or
something.) The menu obliterates the text in the upper-left of the page.

http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/temp/screenshot.png


3) It seems like it is not serving a purpose other than to satisfy a "gee
whiz look at the neat thingy" sensibility. The menu could be more
effectively created statically.

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