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Search – not your father’s Oldsmobile (anymore)

By Marty Gruhn · Comments (0)
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Powerful search capabilities have hit a tipping point. Time to get them on your five point plan.

Once upon a time, search was a lot like socks. One of the basics you need to operate a well-dressed Website.

Search has also been pretty simple. Put out a box, fiddle with some “advanced search” explanations, spend some quality man-months meta-tagging mountains of content —  and let the rest take care of itself.

That is, until today.

Just in case you haven’t checked, search isn’t your father’s Oldsmobile anymore.  A new roster of features & capabilities are changing the rules.   Read More→

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Categories : Design, Marketing, Navigation, Search, Support
Tags : adaptive keyword, adobe.com, apple.com, cisco.com, dell.com, marketing optimized search, Search

Cisco.com launches drop down mega menus & fat footers

By Marty Gruhn · Comments (10)
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Cisco.com Mega Menus

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Innovative twists on an emerging trend

Cisco.com launched its new mega menu and fat footer designs this morning.

Its entry into these design arenas pushes both approaches well past the innovation point and on the way to becoming a competitive requirement. In other words, if mega and fat aren’t on your plan for next year, it’s time to get them on the list.

Of the two, fat footers are the closest to a tipping point, and are a great place to put all of those “must have but no room” links that stakeholders clamber to have on the home page. Mega menu adoption rates are slightly behind, but heading for a tipping point over the next 12 months. They are powerful navigation and marketing real estate for the companies that know how to use them. Read More→

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Categories : Design, Navigation, Website Launches
Tags : best practice, cisco.com, Design, launch, Navigation, Usability, website design

Mega and Fat Become the Fashions of the Day

By Marty Gruhn · Comments (2)
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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Five Websites are setting the pace

It’s interesting how something starts to hit a tipping point on the IT Web. Mega-menus are one of these designs – and fat footers aren’t far behind them.

In the mega-menu race, there are two main strategies in play, and some good and best practices worth considering.

On the strategy side, we have two basic approaches in evidence these days: mega-menus targeted at straight navigation – and those that add product marketing, corporate marketing and call to action dimensions.  In every case, there are great examples of both approaches on the IT Web.  Here’s some places to start: Read More→

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Categories : Design, Navigation, Usability, Web 2.0
Tags : brocade.com, dell.com, Design, emc.com, fat footer, hp.com, insight.com, juniper.net, mega-menu, microsoft.com, Navigation, newegg.com, novell.com, Usability, Web 2.0

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