[Sigia-l] "meta-"navigation

[Donna Maurer]

I'd guess that the term didn't come about because the items are meta (at a higher 
conceptual level) to the site, but because they are frequently placed at the top 
(higher physical level)  ;)

I still think these are supplemental navigation (and I have taught them as being 
such for years). They are often outside of the core IA and are 
additional/supplementary to the core content.

Donna

On 3 Jun 2005 at 13:36, Eric Scheid wrote:
> 
> I don't think it is a completely nonsense term: there is navigation to
> pages which are meta to the site (eg. 'about', 'privacy', 'copyright',
> etc), and thus could be termed "meta-navigation" in the same sense
> that the "local" in Local Navigation also refers to the link
> referents, not the actual links themselves (in which case the only
> "local navigation" link in common use today would be a "skip over nav
> links to get to content" link).
> 
> If there's a better term, then lets hear it.
> 
> e.
> 
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