Web page layout design: Registration login box where appropriate?

Design | Web page

Noticed a more interesting phenomenon, Web layout design, the domestic web site like the user registered login box to put the most important position on the left, but also a big bucket of a register box; foreign websites like to put the registration login to the right, and usually the upper right corner is very humble position, and often even the login box has been saved, Only a link to sign up for a login is given.

Which layout design is more reasonable? I have asked users on various occasions, will be very surprised to say: Not all put on the left?

In fact, according to our habit of reading from left to right, it is clear that the most important position on the left should be to place important content, rather than wasting the golden land to place the registration login box.

But here is the key to the problem-site operators will say: I just put the most important content on the left Ah, my purpose is to users more registered to use Ah! And the user also feel that there is nothing wrong with registration, change a position instead of adaptation. So, on the surface, it all makes sense.

However, careful analysis, registration login left is entirely the site operators according to their own subjective needs rather than user needs to do the design, and when most of the site is eager to enlarge the registration box on the left, the user also imperceptibly formed a habit-- Their so-called habit is actually to ignore the most important position on the left when reading the page, because there is usually no access to the content--that is, I think it's a "forced habit" or "Numb habit".

Site operators of course have a variety of reasons to express the registration of the left is not to leave the determination, I think if your users do feel that registration on the right is a wohuo thing, but we have to consider another thing, is the search engine crawler, reptiles themselves do not operate the site, do not understand the difficulties of our website operators , so it thinks the first thing that appears on the left is the most important ...

So let's weigh it yourself. Many smart developers put the registration box to the left to cater to the user's "numbness habit", but the program design or let the search engine first see the most important content.

More satisfactory is, look at the domestic several web2.0 websites, most are registered to login in the right, because web2.0 is advocating user-oriented, user-friendly design. So I came to a bad conclusion: the login box to the left of the 2.0 site, essentially has not evolved from 1.0 success.