Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 2: Grouping

Best Practice #2: Use chunking and grouping to increase scanability and learnability
So you’ve taken the mega-menu plunge and you now have more labels to fit into your drop-down. How do you make sure it doesn’t look like a mess of text?

There are a couple of options:
Grouping:
Create clear and logical groupings within the menu [...]

SharePoint Content Structure – Let a thousand content types bloom?

“How many content types should you have?”
This is the question that came up in a conference call last week on SharePoint architecture. This organization had implemented their corporate portal on SharePoint 2007 and was interested in going forward with more portal sites but had some concerns about the approach to information architecture they had undertaken.
I answered [...]

Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 1 of many

No matter where I run, I cannot seem to hide from them.
They fly out of website navigation menus with no warning. They assault my senses with link overload.
…they are…mega menus.
Are they a new navigation paradigm or just a bad fad – like acid washed jeans?
And whose idea were they anyways?
It’s difficult to trace the starting point of [...]