The organic growth of a website
Here's something most web designers/ developers learn early in their career: a web site is never finished. If you already expect the site structure and size to change, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble and frustration.
Do not waste your time building a menu that has a fixed size and caters only to a certain amount of menu entries. Instead, make sure that you can add or delete items, replace link texts with other terms, and extend items with other entries in the hierarchy below them.
In other words: a good web site has a menu that can be easily changed, extended, and even renamed. You can achieve that in one of two ways:
- Use real HTML text links as the menu and give it a logical semantic structure (normally an unordered list). This means that you can easily change the text when you need it and translate it into other languages should you want to offer a multilingual site in the future, while visitors can easily resize the menu to their needs (not every body can see as well as you might). In this day and age, you can use CSS to make a text menu look as fancy as a graphical one.
- Use server side includes and a server side language to maintain the menus. This is also what content management systems or blogging systems such as Wordpress do for you.
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