I always used unordered lists as a navigation (styling via css) for sites i’ve created. Now I have to create a menu like this: http://www.studioindigo.be/wim/menu/menu.png
Should I (1) use an unordered list to create the navigation or should I (2) use a single line of text where every word is a link.
Will google or other searchengines have trouble with (2) a single line of links?
I don’t think Google will demote you for not using a list. But if you want to use a list, and are comfortable with a little hand-coded css, it’s not hard to get a list to look like this. Let me know if you want a recipe.
Thanks for your reply. I started the creation of the site over a year ago (waiting and waiting for input…) and now it’s almost finished and I suddenly realised that I haven’t made the menu into a list! Maybe it’s better to create a list after all. I have done some hand-coding to make a list into a nice menu, but do you have any suggestions on how to replicate the dash in the menu?
Sure. The very easiest will be to make a graphic of it, and set that to be the bullet image for your list items. Then set another rule for the first-child to remove the slash from the initial item.
.mylist ul li {
list-style-image: url(Resources/slash.gif);
}
.mylist ul li:first-child {
list-style-image: none;
}
Let me know if you need the magic recipe for injecting this stuff into Freeway without it being trampled by the excellent intentions of the Edit Style dialog.
