Thank you Mary... that sounds like a good solution...
what do you think of this solution?

http://www.oasiswebdevelopment.com/oppc/solution.html

Betsy
On Feb 14, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Callahan, Mary wrote:

> I'm working through a similar issue (sample site not posted yet).
>
> I tested various speeds for the submenus to show up once the cursor
> hovers
> over, and discovered that if I had the submenus pop up instantly, they
> ignored the main menu items and just clicked on the submenu items.
> These
> "submenu clickers" only clicked on main menu items that had no arrow.
> But,
> if the submenus appeared about a half a second after hovering over the
> main
> menu item, more people clicked the main menu link. Unfortunately, few
> of
> those "main menu clickers" bothered to hover over that link again to
> get to
> the submenu stuff, even though there was the little arrow letting them
> know
> more was available!
>
> In trying to find a way that would give both kinds of "clickers" the
> best of
> both of their impulses, I had the submenus show about a quarter of a
> second
> post hover, and made the top link in each submenu say something akin to
> "General Info". That top submenu link went to the same page as the
> main
> menu link went. I thought it was weird, but it tested great. More
> people
> went to each of the pages. Maybe something similar will work for you.
>
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Wallace [mailto:betsy@oasiswebdevelopment.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:41 AM
> To: dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com
> Subject: Re: Site Review
>
>
> DROP-DOWN MENU -INTUITIVE?
>
> Can I have your opinions?
>
> Is it fairly intuitive that the main links (ie worship, music program,
> serving others) are actual links that you can click on and get to a
> page on this site?:
>
> http://www.oasiswebdevelopment.com/oppc
>
> The client (this effort is free on my part) thinks that because of the
> submenu drop downs that people wouldn't know to click on the main links
> (as listed above).
>
> She is suggesting that the sublinks should be changed and be on the
> side as in her example site's sublinks:
>
> http://www.hpcumc.org
>
> What does anyone think? any comments either way would be very much
> appreciatd. thanks
>
> Betsy Wallace
>
>
>
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