At least one blog entry questioned useit.com and usability. Let's consider How Users Read on the Web as a starting point. This article mentions Eyetracking Research, which also contains some significant ideas. Add these ideas to your audit. [Who is Jakob Nielsen anyway?]

We worked today on some dynamic menus. I have a start on a new Web site for me at Wofford. I'm abandoning myblog look for a simpler, more accessible design. I've adopted a two-column, liquid layout [Zip of files we started with]. I want to add a navigation menu similar to what I have now, but with pop-up sub-menus á la son of suckerfish. For spring, I'll need the following menu.

• Home
• About me
• COSC 235
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Blog
  • Resources
• COSC 330
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Blog
  • Resources
• COSC 351
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Blog
  • Resources

At some point, I might want to use an elastic layout. And have you checked out Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design lately?

The resulting Web pages that we put together are [Zip of files] linked below. I'm happy with the menus, although I still want to style them to look better.

• Horizontal menu
• Vertical menu (Hey wait! This pop-up doesn't work in IE6! And the nested selections go off the edge of the window. That's not too good!!)

Think about it: Why did we end up linking the home page to two CSS files?

Have a safe, restful, and yet productive break!