User Experience Question
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I'm doing a small company web site. The owner wants a sidebar news column and a main news page. I thought I'd throw this out as a user experience survey, not a programming question. How would you like to see 'side news' on the site, over here[^]? (This site is still very much under development. Please don't take this as the finest example of my work) Too much detail in the sidebar stretches the page down too much, so maybe I should only use headlines as links there - no details and no image. When you click a link in the sidebar, it opens the main news page, but what do i show on the main news page if you navigate directly there? Maybe cycle the 'current' story?
Brady Kelly wrote:
sidebar news column and a main news page.
This brings OSnews.com to mind. For perhaps months after they switched to this format I never even GLANCED at the news, but then one day the very topmost item was actually interesting, so I started glancing at it sometimes.
Opinion-wise, since the sidebars are so routinely just advertising to be ignored, that's probably what taught me to ignore sidebars, so I think it's not a good concept. But for OSnews there is that natural distinction between the blog-like-stuff on the left and the simple-news-items on the right, that I concede for OSnews this idea somewhat works.pg--az