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Have you got a large site - or is your embryonic site likely to grow much larger that you first thought?
This is quite an important question to answer before you start designing the navigation around your site, especially if you want to use the navigation bar.
I was alerted to the problem when I couldn't see some of my blue voda folders when I was using blue ftp - apparently public_html works best when you have 1200 files or less in it. Because I was using navigation bars I had over 1400! (10 menu gifs per page - 10 mouse over gifs per page - over 70 pages: you do the maths!)
The helpful people at BV came up with a suggestion - why not use the drop down menus instead? (Must point out these weren't actually an option when I first started my site last year!). Anyway, I have now used these, and I think the navigation has improved tremendously (even I found pages I had forgotten!). And having put them up I was able to delete about 1500 files from my public_html folder. Now my 80 page site (yup, it keeps growing) only has 500 files in this folder, and hopefully will allow me to keep the site growing and growing!
So, to sum up this lengthy tip - consider the number of gifs you will be using if you use the navigation bar option. If your site is going to be large, I would suggest you go for the drop down menu instead. Take a look at limebrook.com if you want to see what they look like! I am so pleased with this menu that I think I will change my other site too!
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This is quite an important question to answer before you start designing the navigation around your site, especially if you want to use the navigation bar.
I was alerted to the problem when I couldn't see some of my blue voda folders when I was using blue ftp - apparently public_html works best when you have 1200 files or less in it. Because I was using navigation bars I had over 1400! (10 menu gifs per page - 10 mouse over gifs per page - over 70 pages: you do the maths!)
The helpful people at BV came up with a suggestion - why not use the drop down menus instead? (Must point out these weren't actually an option when I first started my site last year!). Anyway, I have now used these, and I think the navigation has improved tremendously (even I found pages I had forgotten!). And having put them up I was able to delete about 1500 files from my public_html folder. Now my 80 page site (yup, it keeps growing) only has 500 files in this folder, and hopefully will allow me to keep the site growing and growing!
So, to sum up this lengthy tip - consider the number of gifs you will be using if you use the navigation bar option. If your site is going to be large, I would suggest you go for the drop down menu instead. Take a look at limebrook.com if you want to see what they look like! I am so pleased with this menu that I think I will change my other site too!
Cheers
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