woes of navigation
15 Jun 2026 - digitalily
I would like to begin by stating that I am not a UX designer. I did technically take a very phoned in UI design course in college, but it was only dubiously useful and mostly boiled down to 'talk with the client.' Which, all things considered is a really good piece of advice, but also is something that clearly a lot of large tech companies seem to stomp all over in favor of their own ideas of streamlined, or worse, maximizing dark patterns. Fortunately on this website, the stakes are a lot lower, and it mostly comes down to my own preference in combination with the degree to which I want to go. Starting from a fairly basic starting layout and being a static website with limited javascript at the moment means larger changes are simpler (except when confusing css is involved), but how exactly I achieve my goals can be a bit constrained. Here, we'll be talking a bit about what I call the horizontal navigation bar.
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