: What is a good size for category box on web site? I'm designing a web site which has a large number of categories. On one particular page each category will be displayed with a photo, light

@Alves566

Category navigation is rather dull and today's customers get bored of drilling down through categories to (hopefully) find what they want.

Modern ecommerce websites have it done differently, with filtered navigation on the left hand side and a search box in the header - think of Amazon (or another ecommerce site you use) - when was the last time you navigated with categories?

If you still want to use category images, consider using white space instead of boxes. Also try to include some interactivity on the images such as a subtle 10% fade to white on mouseover or fading out to a 'tiltshifted' version of the same images. This is because people click on the pictures 90% of the time, not the text below. If you are going the jQuery route, the 'hover' state can also be fixed to only work when the mouse cursor settles on a given category image, rather than pass over it.

3 across is a very good idea if using a fixed rather than a fluid layout. This is for psychological reasons. In retail people like to be presented with a simple choice that is not bewildering, e.g. the cheap, the normal and the posh versions of a product and not a myriad. A myriad of options scares people off buying in some situations.

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