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Articles avec le Tag "top menu"

Using the Breadcrumbs as a Menu : a Viable Solution?

Publié le 16 décembre 2008 par Simon É

Real bread crumbs As media and e-tailing sites develop more and more content, organizing its diversity has never been a bigger challenge. It’s easy to imagine and communicate a taxonomy for a site where pages are dispatched to less than three category levels. But it’s harder to classify all products in a mature department store that carries everything, from toys to food, to auto parts, or a daily newspaper site that releases tens of articles every hour.

That huge quantity of content requires far more than three category levels (according to Internet Retailer, Wal-Mart carries 500,000 SKUs online), and the user has to understand and navigate properly through these numerous categories. Recently, the answer to these web usability problems seems to be changing… for the better? (Lire la suite…)

Top Menu : an Endangered Species?

Publié le 25 septembre 2008 par Simon É

Ikea US online : \"All departments\" buttonWhile benchmarking top B2C e-commerce sites recently, I noticed that more and more online retailers are removing their top horizontal menus (browsing navigation) in favor of search-based navigation, like eBay did several years ago. But what is happening (or has to happen) behind the scenes for this change to take place? Is this approach well-suited for your business or industry?

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