Top Level Navigation: To Click Or Not To Click
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When it comes to designing your website navigation menu, you’ll eventually need to make one critical choice in the form of deciding whether to make the top-level navigation menu items clickable or to trigger a hover-and-expand function to show sub-menu items. While there are all sorts of rabbit holes in this topic such as how accessibility considerations may impact your decisions, there’s one quick and easy sure-fire rule of thumb to remember: never mix and ...
How To Effectively Communicate COVID-19 Announcements Using WordPress
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No need for any backstory here, we’re all well aware of how much COVID-19 is impacting operations and one of the more pressing challenges is communicating organizational announcements to patrons. Today’s post provides step-by-step instructions on how to quickly create and manage COVID-19 announcements for websites running on WordPress. Goals Provide a single page for all COVID-19 related messages. Generate an update RSS feed you can use to push new messages into an automated email ...
Does Your Navigation Suffer From UIC (Unnecessary Icon Labels)?
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Recently, SmashingMagazine.com published an article by Suzanne Scacca that examines web trends that may be time to retire. While several aren’t applicable to most nonprofit arts orgs, there is one you should consider: unnecessary icon labels. Inside the design world, navigation icons are a great way to make clients feel like they are getting something super personal but in reality, it’s just billable filler that is easy to produce. Scacca uses a Geico app design ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…