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GE has a good language selector, though it's sadly not consistent across all of their sites. See the TW site for a good implementation in an unfamiliar character set (for me anyway) - http://www.ge.com/tw/
A flag is generally a recognizable icon, but in our business we can't use flags due to cultural concerns associated with using a Taiwanese flag to represent Chinese (Traditional). We use a globe instead, but I think the GE World Map icon is a little clearer and the top right positioning means it doesn't get lost at the bottom of long scrolling pages, as it does on other sites.

Beside providing the general understanding of various types of menus you may also provide templates and guides of how to built them.

Captcha's are a nightmare for user experience. Essentially the burden for spam filtering is shifted from the website provider to the website visitor. The visitor is then presumed to represent a nuisance until he proves otherwise. It's the perfect example of internal needs trumping user centered design principles.

"the arrival of Ajax technology has introduced new possibilities where paging is no longer needed." - this means you are neglecting users that use browsers that do not support javascript. I think you should add to your text that the pattern should, if using ajax, first check browser and show standard paging controls to the user if no javascript support is found.

Thx! Very useful post

Nice patterns, the one for vai is so dope!!

someone needs to update the example images...these are old...

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Has doormat navigation been outmoded by the sitemap footer? Or is there a difference in value or context of use?

I am told, but cannot confirm, that footers of this sort can also contribute to SEO organic rankings. While not a UX issue, it is one more reason to consider them.

In larger collections (like stock gallerys), a keyboard navigation (left right arroe i.e) is a huge relief.

I concur with Tyler Wright. I was looking for some old fashioned examples of the tree navigation pattern

The comment in How is wrong IMHO. The Fly-out/Retractable menus are good for navigation, where the user sees the menu briefly and chooses one action/link. Whereas Details-on-demand are used when the user wants to read the larger info thoroughly or use it for numerous actions. The latter issue can be elaborated in the Why section.

i am conducting a research on "Impact of news tickers on perception of information"the above comments were very helpful for me but i need more point of views regarding news tickers on television, that how people perceive them (negatively/positively) and why?

I am thinking whether 'Home' can be used for any type of web, or its alternatives such as 'Main' or so. I would prefer to use 'Home' for personal webs. Wondering what others suggest for corporate or support type webs. I have seen some main navigations using 'Welcome' as well that takes to the homepage.

Spot on Marc Desbiens, 5th March 2009

Great article. I've come across too many web site designers who have zero understanding of interaction design. You're doing them a great favor.

Any data suggesting the second-level tabs should be immediately UNDER the top-level tabs to draw a tighter visual connection and better usable experience? I think this would be especially needed for wider screen implementations in which the selected top-level tab is near the right margin.

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I advice you to look for operators in Google or Yahoo they do helps a lot, as shown in research paper they can be banned.