Wow – that took over a day before anyone complained! Thought I had got away with it.
The log in link is where is’s always been (though that will be changing soon). However I have moved the logged in drop-down menu over the the right.
The impetus for this was that a few flash ads we are running were floating in front of the menu meaning users couldn’t get to the links. Normally we can sort this out with a few settings changes. However that wasn’t a route open to us for these new ads.
I made the decision to move it to the right as this would largely overcome the problem without too radical change.
I also would argue that the top right account management menu has become a “web convention” and that is where most users would look first.
I relatively new here, would you find it helpful I were to blog about changes to the site so as to improve communications?