Navigation and Menus
Your menus correspond to your site hierarchy:ย top-level menu links for main categories, followed by children within each category. It mayย help to think of your menu as a family tree:ย The top-level items are the parents, the second tier items are their childrenย and the third tier items are grandchildren.
Some General Rules About Menus
- Submenusย should includeย three to 10 items. If you have fewerย than three, you might consolidate and include themย on the top-level landing page instead.
- If a page has fewerย than 10 lines of text, consider merging it with another page.ย This will keep users from having to click multiple links to find the content they seek.
- If a page scrolls down more than three or four screens,ย consider breaking it into multiple pages.ย This saves users from scrollingย through huge pages to find content.
