Originally Posted by
John Coloccia
These sorts of menus were designed by software people. The problem with software people (trust me on this...I are one) is that we generally do all of our designs around 3 numbers....0, 1 and infinity. In other words:
- it can't happen
- it happens exactly once
- it can happen any number of times
So these menus are nice in that you can keep adding and adding and adding, and you don't actually have to design anything intelligently. You just keep adding menus and submenus until you've found a place to stick everything. It makes the software guy happy because it's expandable to infinity! The user trying to use it, on the other hand, gets very annoyed because they have to dig for what they want, and if their aim is off just a little bit, all of the menus disappear and they have to start over.
Anyhow, I hope they figure it out because I find the site is a bit annoying as well. A lot of sites are like this now, actually. Lee Valley has orders of magnitude more items, a primitive organization, but yet it's easier and more pleasant to navigate IMHO. On the other hand, if I want a LN tool, I doubt I'd let the website be an impediment.