Comments on: Mega Menus: the Next Web Design Trend

By: Fredy

Fredy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:47:05 +0000

Mega-menus do provide better navigation options, I've seen them on many websites, and some of them seem really nice. Thanks for the post. Web Design Quote.

By: 27stars

27stars — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:36:52 +0000

Liking the mega-menus – I think if you have the right kind of content it works very well, and that overview of content is very user friendly and time-saving for e-commerce sites :)

By: web development DC

web development DC — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:49:56 +0000

Well i must use Mega Menus in my next web design project. i like this very much

By: Ankrum

Ankrum — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:20:14 +0000

Will,

You say: “Since my site is php powered, I can also generate menu contents on-the-fly!”

Could you please give the url of your site?

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:57:57 +0000

Microsoft has had these menus on microsoft.com and msdn.com for close to 10 years now. It became a necessity for them considering the huge array of information they are trying to publish for developers, and number of subsites they have from their main home page.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:34:01 +0000

I think next web design trend will be dam good.
-The homepage should include a summary of what products
your site has to offer. Customers can always delve deeper
into your site for more information.

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By: memco

memco — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:55:44 +0000

Thanks for the article. I think they’re not as magical as the article claims, but I actually think I found a way to handle a rather large site I manage a little more effectively (assuming I can tame the accessibility issues).

By: Xarr

Xarr — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:57:41 +0000

Jacob Nielsen writes about menu which appears after hover. How about ones which appear only when you click on the menu element?

What do you think?

By: Tim Reeves

Tim Reeves — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:48:56 +0000

I've been using pure CSS Flyout / Dropdown Menus successfully for some time, which display perfectly in ALL modern browsers including IE6. I got the basic tricks from Stu Nicholls website: cssplay. Since they work fine, multi-level, as flyouts or dropdowns, whereby each level can be styled separately, I personally see little need to sacrifice accessibility and move to JS Mega-Menus, except perhaps for the latency effect. One could still add a JS latency to Stu's menues and they would still work in degrading mode, just without latency. I have done something similar by adding a color flow to the background of the menu slots on mouseover, german speakers can read more and download it here: colorflow

By: brothercake

brothercake — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:42:02 +0000

Menus not working when scripting is disabled is the best-practise approach. You degrade back to plain links which lead to sub-index pages that list the content which was available from the submnues.

Acccessibility does not necessarily mean that everything is available to everyone; it’s about providing *equivalence*, not equality.