Of course, its good to have important links at the bottom of the page. But the fact that it is not obvious means when a user is lost, he has no way to know where to look for information, unless he notices it at the bottom of the page. Secondly, links as few as 4 or 5 per section is good to have at the bottom but for larger sites that have many sections and many more sub sections within each, it may not be a great idea. And when there are deeper levels of navigation within the secondary navigation, it loses it scability and is a challenge to present well. So IMHO - Flaunt the most important subsections under each section header at the bottom of the page. Have a good sitemap that consolidates all subsections and sub-sub sections if any, in a different, single page.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:48 PM, John Gibbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Sitemaps don't need to live on separate pages and they don't just > serve lost users. > > Sitemaps can live comfortably at the foot of the page [1],[2],[3],[4] > and are particularly powerful from an SEO perspective [5]. It's there > when you need it, and it's out of the way when you don't. > > [1] http://www.norwichunion.com > [2] http://www.last.fm > [3] http://www.plus.net (best example) > [4] > http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=sitemap-footer > [5] http://snipurl.com/3zlpi > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33722 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
