Hi all,

>The proposed new design used frames. One ran a menu down the right of the
>browser, and this targeted the larger left-hand frame. Frames were suddenly
>dropped from the project.

A lot of companies or dropping frames, altough more and more browsers
support them, and support them better (back button) and users are getting
accusomed to use them...
I believe that if you use STABLE and FEW and WELL choosen frames, frames
CAN be good...

>The menu is repeated again and again down the right of the screen, in a
>table. This means that the menu scrolls with the text, but is always
>available - since it is repeated.

That's a strange thing. And it's one way around the navigation problem. The
alternative is to use smaller pages... but few people can stick to small
pages. And also in that case the user will have to wait if he wants the new
page. With large pages, you scroll if you want more, and you click and wait
if you want new...

What I find harder to understand on this site, is the way they use the
arrows... I just can't figure out where I am, where I've been and where to
go to. I click on an arrow pointing right, go there, and to return I have
to click up... Why the hell for? To go back from right I want to click
left. To go back from down I click up.
Or am I wrong?

Regards,

Bart



 Bart Van Roey ----- http://www.bart.be ----- Consultant HCI
 Brussels, Belgium                       Internet & Intranet