Design opinion

(message boards and classifieds).

Facebook does their logo and top navigation?

but I'm seeing it on more and more prominent sites. So is it still considered to
be annoying (and all of these popular sites are making a mistake), or have times
changed (and it's time for smaller sites to get on board)?

the top part of the site (logo, navigation, etc) stays in place. This gives the
appearance that it's in an old-school frame, with the top 50px in one frame and
the rest of the site in another frame.

I've used sticky header and footer on a few of the websites I created. I
created those in 2008-09, and my own site will get a redo soon, as I
think I should consider mobile devices now. My cited pages don't scale
very well in iPhone and others.

Examples:

http://galaxycamera.com  (I created it, but they opted not to maintain it)

http://DarrellLarose.ca

Pros:

Keeps the menu bar and corporate identity visible at all times. They
both use a template.php file and use <?php include("template.php"); ?>
So I only have to edit the menu once for all pages. I think now one can
float the logo or use many other ways to clean up a page.



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Darrell Larose
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web:  http://DarrellLarose.ca
blog: http://DarrellLarose.wordpress.com
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(message boards and classifieds).

Facebook does their logo and top navigation?

but I'm seeing it on more and more prominent sites. So is it still considered to
be annoying (and all of these popular sites are making a mistake), or have times
changed (and it's time for smaller sites to get on board)?

the top part of the site (logo, navigation, etc) stays in place. This gives the
appearance that it's in an old-school frame, with the top 50px in one frame and
the rest of the site in another frame.

I use it on three sites I maintain.  See my sig link.

Personally, I like a fixed header on a Web page.  And, as Darrell said,
it makes changing the header/menu a simple matter of editing one file
that is used by every page on the site.  Also, a simplified example of
the menu system on my site:

http://edmullen.net/menu_example.php

The header/menu is brought into each page via a PHP "include" statement ala:

<div id="doc_header">
<?php include("./styles/menu.txt"); ?>
</div>

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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried
before.