Navigation Structure

[akurtula]

Hi

 

I am creating a website which has pages of all the services the company provides, and then a shoping section which would have its own navigation.

 

at the moment I have structured a left colum navigation, but I found that their is not a lot of consistancy on the navigation from one page to another.

 

so I thought of having a horizontal navigation at the top linking to the main page ( home | aboutus | contact ... )

 

my question is, would it be ok, or a good practice if few of the links from the main (horisontal) navigation are repeated in the second navigation (as for some pages I may not need a secondary navigation but it way look good for constancy to have a second navigation) so is it ok is one of the secontary navigations had links to the about us and contact page (for example)

 

thanks for for help

[Andrea]

You mean that for those pages, where there is no need for a secondary navigation on the side, you would just repeat your main, horizontal navigation in the side-column?

 

I'd find it confusing and redundant, but I think this is one of those things where you'll only get subjective replies.

[akurtula]

if this question was asked by someone else, I would think the same "confusing and redundant";

 

How about having the side-column black, because what I think would brake the design would be if some pages are with a content area of 550px and the others hare the full 960px for content.

[Andrea]

Kind of hard to tell if black would work - considering that I have no idea whatsoever what the site you're talking about looks like....

[akurtula]

at the moment I am at the design stage, but if we take your home page as example (from the link you have assignature)and the right column did not have anything in it would it work.