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From the start it has always been top to bottom, left to right. When we read a book, website, or even pan across a beautiful bit of scenery, our natural reaction is to pan left to right, and top to bottom. That’s just how we live and how we’re coded.

Think you’re not like me? Think you’re unique? Try this on for size. The next time you’re crossing the street notice which way you look first - left>right>left. How about driving through an intersection? Reading a website? Are you Catholic? Ever play Contra? Well it’s all the same, “top to bottom, left to right.”

The Horizontal Way is a showcase site for all the great horizontally laid out sites on the web. While, it still follows the old adage of left to right, these sites take it to the extreme. When you’re done viewing what’s laid out on the site you scroll to the right to see more. No more conventional top to bottom browsing.

I don’t think this style of viewing a site will ever become the norm, though it’s design and execution are excellent. It’s definitely a breath of fresh air in a world of conformity. The concept of horizontal scrolling through javascript compelled me to implement it into this very blog. The logic was the basis for our portfolio strip.

And on that note, I’m off to get me 99 more lives. (up up down down left right left right a b select start)

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