[Sigia-l] global navigation meta navigation

Dey Alexander deyalexander at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 05:25:25 EDT 2005


Ditto to Donna's comments.  I've heard it referred to as utility
navigation or global utility navigation (if it's across an entire
site).

Cheers,
Dey

On 6/2/05, Donna Maurer <donna at maadmob.net> wrote:
> Thanks - I usually call these utilities or supplemental. Meta navigation
> is a poor term as it isn't really navigation - its a set of links and
> it's not really meta - it's less important ;)

> >Meta navigation usually refers to items like contact, help, search, or
> >shopping cart -- nav items commonly appearing at the top right of many
> >sites.
> >
> >It's distinguished from the global navigation because it's often seen
> >as secondary to the site's main purpose.



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