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.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Your dad is right. On desktop, navigation is on the left. On tablet, you shrink it to a rail. On mobile it should be a dismissible nav drawer.

The top menus, especially the flyover(on mouse hover), are bad for accessibility because they convert a non-committal action (hover) to a context changing one (focus). It's a uniquely web-only invention and thankfully falling out of usage. (Unless you mean menubar/toolbar. Those are fine but extremely rare on Web.)

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Lots of websites with menus on the left!

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

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Lemmy Frontend called Photon:

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago

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.