Library Navigation Menus now iPhone and iPad Friendly
Aug 10
posted by Roger Skalbeck in
Web Development, Graphic Design, Site Enhancements
Since we launched the current law library website in January 2008, we've used a single sitewide navigation menu across the entire site. It is anchored in a consistent place and mostly works well. Unfortunately, it wasn't usable with Safari on the iPhone or iPad. Also, it required proprietary JavaScript, which added page weight and complexity to our site, especally in testing. Now we've moved to a new system for running the menus that works pretty well on iPhone and iPad browsers in Safari. This menu uses the jQuery JavaScript library together with a menu plugin called Superfish. Down the road, when we redesign our entire site, a jQuery plugin like jQTouch looks very promising for mobile site optimization. For now though, we stuck with the same menu style on the same website. The colors are even mostly the same, so we'll see who notices the difference.
