Hi Jennifer,
I agree with Elizabeth - replicating navigation is a waste of space
and superflous. By the sound of things you've not been left many
choices? I don't think there's an obvious answer, however it might be
a case of chosing the lesser of the evil. Possible options:
1. Disable the left hand naviagtion and use the space it occupied (if
possible) for useful content,
2. Attempt to look at the renaming the left hand sub-nav (from the
global sub-nav) into labels which further aid or augment navigation
for the user,
3. Disable the horizontal sub-nav so there's no duplication and use
the left hand navigation to support that section of contet.
Could you supply a link to the exisiting site?
Good luck,
-- rob
// Rob Enslin
On 21 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Jennifer <[email protected]> wrote:
thanks elizabeth! I actually agree with you. right now, we have really
no taxonomy, which is a pretty deep problem. I want to address it and
have someone hired to help us rebuild.
What I'm looking at doing right now - at least until we can address
the larger issue - is replicate the the main sub-categories off the
global nav, but add a 'tree' navigation below each in a
left-navigation scheme that provides the deeper pages that can be
accesses to elaborate upon that category...
Not sure that makes much sense :)
-J
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