Changing link properties for "current" entry on menu

Most pages do things bad way... To know what is good for your page, it
would require knowing your page.

Feel free to take a look and give me any comments you might have.

holly.sillyfamily.org

Thank you for your help,

Don

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Don G wrote:

Most pages do things bad way... To know what is good for your page, it
would require knowing your page.

Feel free to take a look and give me any comments you might have.

holly.sillyfamily.org

Thank you for your help,

You will have confusingly complex menu in 6 months, if you add one item
each month. And already, your manu is taking space that could be used for
something else, for example to put next/previous links available without
scrolling.

It is confusing that I can't click Pre-Birth but can click Home, they
look and feel same.

--
Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>
Utrecht, NL.

You will have confusingly complex menu in 6 months, if you add one item
each month.

Why do you say it is complex? It is but a simple list. Aside from the
fact that some of the items are not links, how is it confusing?

And already, your manu is taking space that could be used for
something else, for example to put next/previous links available without
scrolling.

Yes, that would be nice, but I thought it would be better to always be
able to jump to any other page without having to go back. I guess that
is why is at least part of why you feel it is complex.

It is confusing that I can't click Pre-Birth but can click Home, they
look and feel same.

You have a good point here. What I think I will do now is move most of
the formatting from the link tag to the list item tags, but keep the
hover on the links. This will help differentiate links from non-links.
Do you think that would eliminate the confusion or should I do
something else to help differentiate the non-links?

Thank you for your input,

Don

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Don G wrote:

You will have confusingly complex menu in 6 months, if you add one item
each month.

Why do you say it is complex? It is but a simple list. Aside from the
fact that some of the items are not links, how is it confusing?

Hard to tell what is confusing, if the part that is confusing is not to
be taken account. It is 2 levels, but not consistant. It is not clear
that it is 2 levels, and especially it is not clear that home is link and
the others are headings.

Yes, that would be nice, but I thought it would be better to always be
able to jump to any other page without having to go back.

So, you are assumimg that your images are so uninteresting, that
almost nobody bothers to look at them? I don't think you are wrong
here... but your mother is most likely bigger target for this page than
thousand ciwas readers...

It is confusing that I can't click Pre-Birth but can click Home, they
look and feel same.

You have a good point here. What I think I will do now is move most of
the formatting from the link tag to the list item tags, but keep the
hover on the links. This will help differentiate links from non-links.

But it is not perfect. They should not look same.

Do you think that would eliminate the confusion or should I do
something else to help differentiate the non-links?

You need to make links look more links and text look more passive. It
doesn't help much to make them look different, if it is still unclear
which is link and which is text. There is convention that blue,
underlined text is link. That is best way to provide links today.

--
Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>
Utrecht, NL.

So, you are assumimg that your images are so uninteresting, that
almost nobody bothers to look at them? I don't think you are wrong
here...

There is no reason to be rude. I appologize for wasting your time by
asking for your advice on this learning project.

Good day,

Don