Thereality, though, is that a menu needs to be much more than that. It should highlight restaurant food options, but also blend design elements and sales techniques that help make it such a powerful tool for converting guests.
When it comes to online menus, studies show that having photos of each dish can massively boost online orders for that dish. But on a physical menu for in-person dining, studies show that guests tend to associate photos with cheap, mass-produced food, and too many images can actually be a turn-off.
A classic diner comes with a lot of nostalgia, and this menu from Northvale Classic Diner perfectly blends modern design with the nostalgic feeling guests expect to get from eating at a diner. As should be the case at any diner, burgers take center stage with an eye-catching middle section, while the upper right is reserved for sandwiches, starting with high-profit options like the grilled cheese.
Taqueria Habanero clearly knows that more information is better with online menus, which is why guests can also select a dish to see comments and reviews from previous guests who have already ordered it. The restaurant also makes it easy to place a takeout or delivery order straight from the menu.
Popmenu makes it easy to create eye-catching, mobile-optimized online menus that draw guests in. It also makes it simple to turn them into physical menus, via an easy-to-use Print Center with a variety of restaurant menu templates.
When doing HTML dropdown menus that are CSS specific, you have some unordered list type structure up near the top of the code. If your dropdown links to hundreds of pages, does having this large unordered list at the top of every page's code hurt that page's SEO (because there is all of that non-page-specific code at the top)? I only ask because I noticed that my Google Mini search results were skewed by the UL at the top until I find a Google Mini specific tag that caused it not to index that section.
If your dropdown links to hundreds of pages, does having this large unordered list at the top of every page's code hurt that page's SEO (because there is all of that non-page-specific code at the top)?
It can, but like anything on the web, it comes down to implementation. It's not so much the code used to put the menu that would impact your SEO, but more the fact that you're dividing your page's linking equity (PageRank) by a larger number of links. This isn't an issue if you are a popular site with high PR, but if you're not, you'd want to be more selective about how/where you're linking internally. The actual code used to make up that navigation isn't as much of an issue as the way you're including those links, since search engines mostly ignore the markup (including HTML5).
This will help with the content being closer to the H1/body tag being given preferential weighting, but you're still not dealing with the number of links issue. I have tried the CSS positioning method as a test, and it had a negative impact on the value of the main navigation elements because they were given "footer" weighting in the eye of the search engines.
Summary:So the answer really is, for SEO - don't use mega-menus if you're a small site because you simply can't spread the link equity proportionately to the pages that need it - you'll need to ensure your most important pages are linked to from your homepage, then link deeper as you traverse your site architecture. If you've got PR of 6 or higher or a lot of higher PR pages, then you could consider linking deeper from your main menus.
The best direct solution to your question is to use the HTML5 element - enclose your CSS menus inside a element, and Google & friends will see that an know that everything inside it is menu structure. It's the semantic web at work.
If you can't use HTML5 (and there's no reason why not, unless you need to support IE with Javascript switched off), you can achieve a similar effect by using well named classes and IDs to emphasise to Google that this section of the page is menu structure. Google sees enough CSS menus these days that they should be able to work it out without having too much of an SEO impact for you.
The problem you're going to have is that having a large menu with hundreds of entries harms your site's general usability as much as if not more than it harms SEO. See this site for a (slightly opinionated but still valid) article about why large drop-down menus are bad, whatever method is used to create them: -menus-no-thanks
Through the passage of House Bill (HB) 1208, in 2021, local education agencies (LEAs) are no longer required to align their LAP services with the menus of best practices. However, the ELA menu is still required for K-4 literacy improvement strategies through ESSB 5946. OSPI encourages LEAs to continue using the menus to inform their services.
Pentax is about as good as Canon except that it lacks a touch screen. I loved shooting with Pentax cameras because I got the impression, they were designed by people who clearly understood what photographers need. My experience is limited mostly to the Pentax 645z and I loved shooting with it.
The Canon menu system is amazing. It's so extremely well-organized and they don't have crazy subnesting of menu items (looking at you, Sony). Also, if you pick an item on Canon, you will even get a little description of what that menu item does. And yes, every item on a Canon touchscreen is selectable and Canon touchscreens support things like swipe, pinch to zoom, etc. Just like a smartphone.
Your topic is interesting. The article is less than adequate. Whatever your reasons for not reviewing Nikon are not suitable reasons to not review Nikon's menu system. Of course, if you have no knowledge of the system, it is your responsibility to learn it so you can offer your opinion. Any article with this topic must have Nikon's system included in sufficient detail.
fstoppers is such a weird site; the founders produce such amazingly high quality content...and yet their contributing authors write the laziest articles with pure click-bait titles. I wish lee and patrick would insist that the photographers/writers they work with approached the gig with the same work ethic they do
I don't feel entitled to the contributing authors of this site doing a good job; it's just a desire of mine. I really enjoy lee and patrick's content -- I think it would be cool if the contributing authors produced equally high quality content.
Maybe it would require increasing compensation for the authors (if you're being compensated at all) because right now there appears to be very little incentive to write anything more than lazy, un-researched opinion pieces with controversial titles
I think what Dale is referring to is from the journalist perspective. A journalist with a title similar to yours would establish a set of criterias, would review each camera individually and list the pos and cons for each system based on the standard set in the criteria.
Saying that Dale has to remember this is an opinion piece. You are simply listing your experience with each of the systems. This is more a failure of the site, as the article should be listed as an opinion piece rather then an actual review of the camera's menu systems.
I personally understand you tried to make some jokes with this particular article, but I also think it's actually a legitimately interesting topic. A more robust look at it would be very helpful, especially for those who aren't familiar with camera menu systems (and I'm definitely not).
To address a more serious attempt at "menu system" review article you would probably want to explain components of user interface design, which is a pretty huge, serious and well-researched field. I have interest in UI-design from a software engineering perspective so I can throw in my 2 cents:
For example, you could count how many steps/button presses to enable some commonly-used feature or switch a commonly-used setting. Eye-auto-focus is all the rage - how do you set it up (let's assume no special customizations)? For that matter, how easy is it to setup custom buttons/functions?
You could go REALLY deep into this if you wanted (weighted user scenarios, user modelling for experienced/novice/specialty users), but that's probably not necessary. For the purposes of a site like this, it'd be nice for interested people to get a good relative feel of the camera menu systems to make their purchase decisions accordingly.
The reason I kept it somewhat light is because it's not really possible to make objective points about which manufacturer is the best. It's based predominantly on preference and as you can see from the poll, my prediction came to pass. Canon is as usual number one but I don't think Canon is the best.
Here's an example, I would score a flip out touch screen much higher than just a tilt screen. Many people disagree with me and consider a tilt screen to be superior. How would an objective scoring system be feasible when there's no consensus on what is better between features.
The only thing I could objectively score is how easy it is to change ISO, Shutter and Aperture. Every camera I shot with have dials with easy access to that. Other than those features Every photographer seems to have their own preferences.
I liked the Canon menus better than Sony but I honestly think every camera menu sucks. There are just so many options to keep organized and everyone prioritises different things so no one's really happy. Honestly, dumbing down the menus but then letting you add any option to any field/row would be the best. You should also be able to save and share these menu layouts from camera so others can try them. You could download a wildlife menu from your favorite photographer and give it a go. This way if you're not sure what you need or why it's important you can learn from them.
As a former Canon person who moved to Sony, I would say you've got Canon in the right spot, but not Sony. (I would put Nikon up there at #3 or #4.). Sony added enough customizable buttons and a quick menu so that you don't have to go into the main menu often. But if you do, it is confusing and illogical. And the absence of a true touch screen in the most recent iterations of the A7 and A9 is is shameful.
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