consider these multi level menus as a site map Do you need a sitemap on each page... is a site map useful on each page.
you could easily construct a drop down menu with multi levels, but it may not be useful, or usable. But with a style switcher you could put a sitemap in the footer of each page.
just a random thought
Justin French wrote:
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I'm quoting for a client at the moment who seems to have her heart set on dropdown menus for the sites navigation. I've implemented such menus before, and am currently using a version of the Suckerfish menus [1], which is fine for a one-deep hierarchy, but it looks like she wants 3-4 levels of depth in the menus, which is going to:
- significantly increase development time and testing time - decrease browser compatibility & accessibility
I would also speculate that menus with such deep hierarchy would confuse and distract users.
But we all know how difficult it is to convince a client that they're wrong, especially when they see huge hierarchical menus on other corporate sites. So instead, I'd like to read up (and point her to) any studies conducted in terms of their usability in context of website navigation, perhaps even compared to other forms of navigation.
I have no doubt that such menus ARE usable (we use them every day in Windows, Mac OS, etc), but as pointed out recently on this list (or another?), the menus in our OS are not *navigational* -- they're *functional*.
I'm confident I can provide simple, smart navigation without them, but first I need to find some solid proof that they're a bad idea :)
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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