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I have problem choice of navigation system...coz i doing a game website with a lot of sub page i mean for example...country-A-quest -shop -map -etc -B- with the same sub for Asame as C D E F...what kind of navigation system should i used?there so many different kinds of them.....i triedtree by javascript...but then i want some more dynamic graphic on it...just like a drop down menu...and also tree is vectical menu....i think i like a horizonal menu more....but good dynamic drop down menu usaully are not free...and my site is in chinese , i dun understand why the chinese came out not right in XMLshould i just stick with tree by js ?or are there any ideas or suggestions?

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Visit my website here and let me know what you think of the navigation. It's kind of clunky but it works for me. I used to have 70+ pages and I just made an indented vertical text menu. Horizontal is NOT good for pages that have a lot of links unless you can hide them! Remember, Horizontal is a line like this : -----, and vertical is a line like this: |

I remember liking the tree. It's better to have functionality than prettiness, and you can always work on that later.

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TEOB,One major consideration in choosing a website navigation style is if you are concerned with website "rankings" by the search engines (ie Google, Yahoo etc.). Some search engines rank by the first few words encountered on the page. The vertical style navigation puts all the html code at the very top of the source code page & your metatags later in the page. This results in a poorer ranking in some search engines. The horizontal navigation system (as I understand it) puts the html for the navigation bars later in the source code page- after the meta tags. So the horizontal navigation system yields more accurate (ie. better) search engine rankings. If you want to investigate this issue further, just do a search for "SEO" on the web.Hope this HelpsRGPHNX

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I have problem choice of navigation system...

 

coz i doing a game website with a lot of sub page

i mean for example...

country-A-quest

              -shop

              -map

              -etc

        -B- with the same sub for A

same as C D E F...

 

what kind of navigation system should i used?

there so many different kinds of them.....

 

i tried

tree by javascript...

but then i want some more dynamic graphic on it...

just like a drop down menu...

and also tree is vectical menu....

i think i like a  horizonal menu more....

 

but good dynamic drop down menu usaully are not free...

and my site is in chinese ,

i dun understand why the chinese came out not right in XML

 

should i just stick with tree by js ?

 

or are there any ideas or suggestions?

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Whatever you do, make sure their's a "Home" link on EVERY page and that your logo is always a link to your home page. I know you're thinking "DUH" but I can't tell you how many times I've done a search for something that took me to somebody's sub-sub-sub page, with no link back home. If I didn't know how to lop off the end of their URLs, they would never have gotten my traffic to their main pages.

 

Suz

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