Publisher's Synopsis
When developing a web site, one of the most important things to consider is the navigation menu, to allow your users to find their way around it. It needs to usable, informative, and well implemented, but this can take time.;This title should take all the hassle out of implementing web menus, in whatever style and technology you wish, by providing full code samples, along with walkthrough tutorials on how they work to allow easy customization for your own needs. It covers: guidelines on designing usable web menus, with 12 common-sense rules to follow; information architecture for menus (including identifying your target user), and user testing; easy to follow tutorials on building menus with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Flash; advanced tutorials on dynamically populating menus from XML and databases with server-side scripting, including PHP and ASP; and extensive web support including fully adaptable downloadable code for your own use, and a gallery of working menu examples.
