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The sidebar takes secondary importance to the content, and the information located there is useful, but not vitally important. Ads are commonly located in right sidebars. Some web designers place the menu in a right sidebar. Menus should not be located in right sidebars, and advertisements shouldn’t be in left ones.
Put Your Sidebar on the Left On most websites where the main purposes of the sidebar is to help people navigate through the website, you will find sidebars on the left-hand side of the page.
How to choose the best placement for sidebar?
For example, most of the university websites would have a top horizontal bar or a left sidebar for “Admissions, Faculty, etc”. These links are pretty important for a university, garners most interest and hence need to be drawn to the site visitors at first glances.
If you use absolute positioning it will allow you to place them wherever you need without negative margins. Just use left: X; and right: X; to set the location on the page, where X is your value and units of measurement. However, doing so will require you to declare a height for your content so you know how far down to place the footer.
Your team leader is right in a conventional sort of way but wrong otherwise. The sidebar traditionally goes on the left or the top side because usually a sidebar containing important links which are much needed for quicker access and need to be drawn attention to by the user.
Where does the sidebar go on a website?
When you look at this website, one of the things that you might (or might not) have noticed is the position of the sidebar. Throughout all of the pages on my website, it’s on the left-hand side of the page, with the main content area on the right side of the page.