Nictool site navigation tree

[matt]

Check out the navigation tree on the NicTool web site: http://www.nictool.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nictool.com/

Go into the site (not the main page) and check out the navigation tree. Is it cool or not?

[davidcl]

Personally I like the concept but not the execution-- the images you're using are problematic.  I'd keep the tree, but try to find some nicer images.

One thing that works well is using Mac-style disclusure triangles instead of Windows-style drilldown pluses.  The problem with the plus signs is you really need the lines to connect (which they don't, at least on Windows IE) and you really need the line to STOP at the last item in a particular level of the outline.

IMHO.

[matt]

davidcl

Personally I like the concept but not the execution-- the images you're using are problematic.  I'd keep the tree, but try to find some nicer images. One thing that works well is using Mac-style disclusure triangles instead of Windows-style drilldown pluses. IMHO.

OK, that's a reasonable enough idea. How do you like the site look now with the triangles?

Matt

[davidcl]

I like it very much.

However, I realized after I posted that you chose the original outline interface because Nictool client uses something similar.  Nictool's interface does not suffer from the same problems your first try did--  the way the outline in Nictool is set up, the lines connect, and the bottom plus in each group is a right angle rather than a three-way intersection.  So if you could steal the interface from nictool, that might be the best of both worlds, giving you a consistent interface between the product and the site.

That said, the disclosure triangles work nicely, so you could just stop there!