Not CSS related, but this little study may be of interest to you web designers. I suppose most websites follow this placement anyway, and yes following users usage patterns will undoubtly cause many sites to be cut from the same mold (grid wise anyway). Regardless for those of you working with superiors or clients and having a hard time convincing them of why you placed things a certain way, as long as this study backs you up, feel free to use it. They may not respect you, but they'll respect studies, no matter who conducts them.
1. The date on the article was Dec 2000. I'm wondering how much things have changed layoutwise since it was published. I would guess not that much. There's a lot more use of text and inline ads than there were 5 years ago, but comparing it to the sites I work on, most of it was pretty dead on. Search engine placement was the only irregularity I noticed.
Posted at 4:53AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Kris