nav bar position

[Anton]

The best thing to do is to knock up a couple of different designs and let
4 or 5 people use them. See what their responses are, and their speed of
navigation.

I have a site that has a lot of sections which add up to about 15 links that
need to be present on every page.

The way I've done it is to have a set of links that are always present, and
then a different set of links that change with the page.

I have both a left and right navigation bar to achieve this, both of which
are fixed width, but the middle is left to be screen-relative so that it
fits any resolution.

This is achieved by using the 'background' property of the TD tag, which
tiles a little graphic across the center-top of the screen so the whole thing
looks like a continuous graphic, but magically works whatever your monitor
res.

it's pretty cool, and really was the only way I could think to get all of
my navigation on the screen in a way that is intuitive to the user. To me
it works a lot better than having a big list of links down the left - it
frees the whole width of the page for content, below the graphics.

Anton