The image on the right, a current snapshot of melative, shows the head menu in a sort of “tag cloud” formation. This sort of thing is everywhere, but the use of a “cloud menu” on melative is based on statistical data of the menu items.
For the header menu, there are statistical tracking when visitors “hit” a page, and with these trackings there are running percentages of a certain category relative to the total site traffic in all categories.
The music category may have 35% of all traffic among the media, and therefore it’s “formation” size in the tag cloud is relative.
Moving to the user’s dashboard, the dash menu is similar, but based on a single user’s usage of each item. Hence, larger links are the most frequented. It is most likely improper to overuse the cloud menu, but it’s dynamic, and compensates on a per-user basis.
Just a current implementation thought.
