"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Know what bugs me about web sites lately? Well the print seems to get smaller for aging eyes, but that is another story. It's menus! You know how you go to a site and see something you want to click on, but as you move the mouse over a word the dang menu changes to something else.

Try as you may, you keep shuffling the mouse back and forth trying to get the original menu to stay put. My understanding is these fancy new drop down mouse-over menus are supposed to make the web pages cleaner, and easier to navigate. And they were at first when the concept was new.

Now it seems there is a drive to put more menus in a smaller amount of space. This results in you popping open an unexpected menu as the mouse pointer gets near a word beside the one you wanted. I have even left web pages and said to heck with it because of these irritating menus.

I think this is happening because many sites of advice of how to construct a proper appealing web page say everything above the fold is what gets the viewer's immediate attention. This is probably true to a certain extent.

What is the fold? That is the first screen you see on a web site before you do any scrolling. The title, the purpose of the site and the menus are usually in this area.

So perhaps it is for this reason that some web site owners try to cram in all the menus they can along with other stuff, in this first screen which is "above the fold."

I know this sort of thing is incentive for me to move on, rather than play with their fancy skittering dropping menus. How about you?

-=One Day At A Time=-

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