We have have lately been struggling with the left site navigation, and what happens at various levels of depth. We don’t want people to be getting lost in the site, but we also don’t want to overwhelm users with too many options.
Here is what our designers are currently proposing:
Our main concern is that at Level 3, we are loosing all the other links for the sub-section (the siblings), so we have thrown it back to our designers to come up with a better option. Overall, it has been a real challenge for us to get section navigation right, and we are working hard to make sure that we do a better job on this redesign that we have currently.
Most sites don’t have the level of depth that a college site does. Or if they do, they jump to a whole new navigation once you get to a certain depth. So trying to maintain a navigation that goes from top to bottom for a site that has 15,000 - 20,000 pages is a real challenge. I’ll post more as this develops.
Tags: redesign, navigation
May 8, 2008 at 1:43 am
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