Unconventional Web Design and Navigation | The Stock Well - Helping Creativity: "Usability:
Usability (sadly) trumps design in many cases, and since good usability often implies finding things quickly, navigation bars are often placed on top of the page, in the same exact place almost. While good use of usability delivers a good user experience, the current conversions of what “good usability is promote the templat-isation of web design"