From time to time, while designing new web-sites, I am asked to consider fly-out menus (sometimes called drop down or roll over menus). In most cases, I steer my clients to more user-friendly, more efficient solutions; but in the process, I end up repeating the same basic points many times. So I decided to post my thoughts on fly out menus here and refer people to this entry.

First, let me go over the benefits of fly out menus. They are attractive, some might even say cool. They can save a lot of space.