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- nylon
Do you have a preference on wether top level nav and company logos are pinned to the top over every website?
http://www.brandunion.com/insigh…
versus
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless…
Just interested in your thoughts...
- section_0140
Depends on the site, more than anything. Pinned headers should always be minimal
- detritus0
I think pinning nav to the top's a smart idea, and if you're doing that, may as well stick a logo in there too.
- nylon0
Essentially we built this site in muse with a pinned hear for desktop - it looks great.
You cant pin stuff for tablet and phone in which case we will need LOTS of 'back to tp' buttons all the long scrolly pages...
Just wondered if people think it is wrong for logo and nav to shoot off pages these days...
- yuekit0
So you are building your site without a developer at all? o_o
As for whether it's wrong or not, totally depends on the context...but I wouldn't settle for being limited by your software.
- utopian0
Locked to the top, and keep the entire menu system minimal.
- nocomply0
I think it really depend on the use case for each individual website. The navigation should make your experience browsing the website as seamless as possible.
For sites with a lot of scrolling, a minimal pinned header may be a good idea.
I've seen some sites where the header menu is hidden as you scroll down the page, but then immediately appears as soon as you start to scroll up towards the top. I think that idea has some good use cases too. Here's a really basic demo I found: http://jsfiddle.net/mariusc23/s6…
- voiceof0
Take the best of both. When the user scrolls down let the header move up with the page when they start to scroll back up let the header appear again.
like this:
https://medium.com/- Here's a script for it http://wicky.nillia.…voiceof
- Eh, just disappears. Personally don't like the disappearing nav.formed
- formed0
I like the pinning. Gives the user quick control to get to other parts of the site w/o back tracking.