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Comment on CSS Navigation You’ve Seen Before by The Importance of CSS in Web Design | Targeted Exposure

The Importance of CSS in Web Design | Targeted Exposure — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:25:03 +0000

[...] CSS based layouts are very search engine friendly. Using CSS helps eliminate unnecessary javascript mouseover effects. This will make your navigation menus cleaner, and easier for search engines to read. If a search engine has problems reading your navigation they may not find all the pages within your website. See an apples-to-apples comparison on the code required to power one of Google’s navigation menu here. [...]

Comment on CSS Navigation You’ve Seen Before by admin

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:51:38 +0000

Nathan - You’re definitely right about high speed internet making it easier for web designers to use images without much of a concern on page-load time. Thank goodness for that.

One big selling point of using CSS instead of images (at least for me) is how easy it makes it to add items to a list, and change the color of the text. With CSS all you do is add a list item. With images you’re stuck creating new graphics.

Now imagine if the site you’ve built is for a customer, and they come back to you 6 months after the completion of the job wondering how they can modify their nav menu…

Comment on CSS Navigation You’ve Seen Before by Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:44:17 +0000

With high-speed internet image amounts are a non-issue especially with PNG images that are high quality and low size. Most browsers (not counting behind-the-times Internet Explorer) have no problems with PNG images and CSS handles them nicely.

One thing I do agree with is Javascript. It’s got to go. It’s quite clunky and applets take too long to download in my opinion. Nav bars could do with some *small* images if a certain effect or font is desired or just plain text. *Nods approvingly* Now go out and rewrite the Web!

Comment on CSS Navigation You’ve Seen Before by Simple | Targeted Exposure

Simple | Targeted Exposure — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:59:31 +0000

[...] is an open source website (download the 181kb .zip here) I built to extend off of one of the CSS based navigation menus that I designed. Its built entirely in W3C valid CSS and XHTML (strict), and is very [...]