Simplified Website Content Management on a Budget

The rest of this newsletter will detail the structural elements of a SelectEdit site and describe how they can be visually designed and customized. We do have plans to develop additional site structures in the future.


SelectEdit currently supports top and left side navigation, and flexible and fixed width site structures. The main navigation supports either a text based or graphics-based main navigation bar with or without dynamic cascading menus for sub-sections and third level pages.

Top navigation: We standardized on top navigation due to our use of dynamic cascading menus. We have found cascading menus to be a very user friendly and flexible navigation device. While it is certainly possible to build dynamic cascading menus into a side navigation structure there is a definite usability problem with side navigation cascading menus (see "Web Design Tips for the Print Designer, part 2" for details). Therefore we adopted drop down menus for the top navigation only on SelectEdit sites.   next >