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1. design_dolphin
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Why do blog themes usually have the sidebar navigation on the right?

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   because most folks are right-handed and the sidebar is usually where the links for clicking are.

   I have no idea, actually - just messing.

3. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Happens to be true. Also - since in English we read left to right it's the logical way to layout a page.

4. Jan Dembowski
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It's a law. You can have more than one sidebar but a right one is mandatory per regulations.

5. joebrooksie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I think blogs put sidebars on the right as the ANTI-Web1.0 design from the 1990's when sidebars were mostly on the left.

6. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   "It's a law. You can have more than one sidebar but a right one is mandatory per regulations."

   LOL! Care to provide a cite for that?

7. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   
   

8. figaro
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Because blog theme developers are conservatives ;-)

   http://www.conservativeusa.org/ritelink.htm

9. WPmaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I think it's all because that is where most people look when they open a web site or blog, by human instinct.

10. Justin Tadlock
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    The first area people tend to focus on when viewing a Web site is the top left corner of the page. Naturally, we'd want our content on the left (most important thing) and the sidebar on the right (less important things go here).

    It's all about what you want the user to focus on. Most of us want our users to focus on content.

    There are other ways to draw attention to a particular section of a page, but it's easier to allow people's natural tendencies to take over.

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