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How to design friendly sidebar navigation?

Let’s check out some interesting steps of sidebar navigation.

Vikalp Kaushik
UX Planet
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3 min readJul 23, 2021

A sidebar is a tremendous, efficient, and important part of the website navigation design. As a rule, it is a component with typography, shading range, or symbols and shows up by the side of the fundamental content— either on the left or the right, depending upon the site design and formation.

Ordinarily, sidebars on the left extension the most consideration and guide the clients all the more successfully due to visual propensity and client conduct, while sidebars on the right can make a more valuable order since they are viewed as auxiliary.

For certain forms of websites and styles, vertical menus will do over add a touch of visual spice to your website; they’ll additionally improve the user’s browsing skill and create your site easier to navigate.

Sidebar Navigation Pros:

When your application needs to display the global navigation on the left, it is recommended to use vertical navigation. Although vertical navigation menus generally take up more space than horizontal menus, they have become more popular as desktop monitors move to a widescreen format.

1. You can include multiple menu items

2. Specific length page look better

3. They’re not difficult to scale and change

4. All the element is noticeable

5. They adjust to all screen sizes

Sidebar Navigation Cons:

Despite their numerous advantages, vertical site menus do have downsides and are not the right decision for each site. Here’s a glance at a portion of the essential disadvantages.

1. Users read sites from left to directly on a screen

2. The right half of the screen gets more clamps

3. Vertical menus can get cut off

4. They take up more area

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Great summary, Vikalp. For future posts, might I suggest you find a native English speaker to help you edit the text? (Or maybe use Google Translate?) There were a lot of places where I had to pause to figure out what you were meaning. That said, I found a lot of good insights here.

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THAT is a best mobile Menu ever https://qanva.tech/mobile-menu/

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