Is java on the sidebar good for navigation?

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doc fluty

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I am in the process of redesigning my website (someone else will code it) and I have an idea for a tabbed system on the sidebar.

This is the code idea i have

http://codecanyon.net/item/sliding-tabs-jquery-plugin/full_screen_preview/141774

what i will have is 2 sets of about 10 links to other inner pages.

I dont want to just put the 20 links on the sidebar because that just makes the page too long. So my idea is to create 2 tabs with 10 links each...

Is this a good idea?

I think the technology used is jquery.. so that should show up on ipads... but what if someone has java disabled on their computer...

I will also have a plain text version with all the links in the footer where i can put them in columns.

Does this make sense or does anyone have any better idea or suggestions such as html5 or something?

my site will be seen by many people on government computers.. so they might now have the latest updates and java disabled.

Thank you.
 
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conor

conor

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This setup shouldn't cause a problem for you. All the content displayed by javascript will be indexed by search engines because its all on the page - nothing is loaded by AJAX. Also if devices with javascript view the page they should still see everything as long as the display none is added by javascript rather than hard coded.

You can see for yourself what it will look like without javascript by disabling javascript in your browser. I usually use a firefox addon called the web developer addon to do this - there could be easier ways though i'm not sure
 
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webdevcloud

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The jquery slider is great and also search engine friendly. I would not worry about javascript disabled browsers. The percentage of users who may have JS disabled is very very small and they are probably of no value or concern to your website. All modern browsers are JS driven. So, anyone who may have JS disabled already has a skewed view of the web or uses them for some special purposes only.
 
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