Navigation schemes

Researching the options for secondary navigation on a recent website project, I found this succinct overview of the navigation samples, including examples of how and why they work. Options include:

• menu trees
• tab stops
• indexes
• pull-down menus
• icons
• page turns
• metaphors
• combos

For our purpose, we decided on pull-down menus that give users visibility into all the site content from the home page, using this site as an example.