Introduction

In this chapter, we will look at a selection of techniques available which are designed to enhance the way users interact with our content. First of all, we will look at the different ways we can present a navigation menu, giving the user a convenient list of the content that we are making available to them. Secondly, we will look at two different ways we can present the actual content to which they have navigated.

We will look at methods of enhancing the display and navigation of page content, by extending existing markup in keeping with the concept of 'progressive enhancement'. In this context, progressive enhancement essentially means that all the content will remain usable to users without JavaScript enabled, or without a suitably modern implementation of JavaScript enabled.

The concept of a navigation menu is well established in the realm of graphical user interfaces, and these tried and tested design patterns have been naturally carried over to the web. The three navigation...