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Choosing menu placement

Choosing menu placement

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Choosing menu placement

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- Once you've worked out your navigation structure, the information architecture, you'll want to think about the best way to display it on the site. This is one situation where following standard designs is very sensible. There are a few tried and tested ways of displaying navigation menus, and people are used to seeing them on many other sites, so it's in your best interests to use one of the formats that are already in place. The two main places that you'll see navigation menus are either as a list in a bar across the top of the page, or vertically in a left or right column list. The main decision as to which of these you'll use is the number of top-level menu items you have. If you have just a few items, for instance, five key tasks that your site supports, then it's likely to take up less space on the page as a horizontal list. If you have a long list of items, say many music genres, that list just won't fit into a single line horizontal format, and so you'll have to use a…

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