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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (12 children)

My dad asked me if I could build a site for him. I tried, but ultimately didn't have the chops (I can customize Wordpress, but this was supposed to be from scratch and I didn't keep up when things like CSS came into being; old). I sent him to hire an outside party.

Here's the thing: he wanted his menus vertical on the left side. I told him that's not how it should be done; they should be at the top. But he was adamant. Later, he told me that his web consultant shop had also said the same. It's the only time he ever said, "you were right," about anything like in my entire life. Not that he was an asshole (though he really was when I was growing up). It's just not something he said. And no one can take that from me. I even called my mom and told her.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

And now... Lots of websites with menus on the left!

Still, happy for you that your dad could humble himself to you. That's really hard for some people, even when they'd like to, it's like your brain just won't compute how to say it without coming out wrong so you never say it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lots of websites with menus on the left!

Can you send an example? I've only seen these foldout side bar menus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube, google drive, Any readthedocs site with more than 1 page

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Well, the youtube menu is most likely positioned there because they dont want people to use it.

[–] pirrrrrrrr 8 points 1 year ago

Every site in the early 2000s had a left nav menu

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia, especially the new design with the table of contents in the sidebar.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Frontend called Photon:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's some articles written about it as well from NN group if you're interested

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/vertical-nav/

Here's an article on user attention on website predominantly leaning left as well as a related topic

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/horizontal-attention-leans-left/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm looking at a page right now that has some buttons for "Subscribe, Create a post, Block community" on the side. But I guess it's on the right side and maybe since they're buttons it doesn't count as a menu.

[–] KairuByte 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, those are less a nav bar and more contextual content. You likely also have the main nav bar along the top.

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