Text Navigation

The latest trend in navigation is a return to standard, text-based menus. Why? Partly because the pages will load faster, partly because text navigation is easily readable by web crawlers, so it will automatically go into the standings as far as keyword relevance.

But if text navigation can't be done with at least some style, there's no point in using it. But, thanks to cascading style sheets (CSS), text navigation can look … well, see for yourself:

Above is the navigation as it looks when you come to the site. Notice, no sub-menus are showing (and they don't show when the mouse crosses over them, either). The brown type for "Home" shows that the link has been visited.


Above image shows how navigation looks once the visitor clicks "About Pricing Strategy Associates." Notice there's now a sub-menu with "CEO Biography," "Affiliated Consultants' Biographies," and "Client List" showing as the sub-categories.


Finally, the image above shows the navigation when "CEO Biography" is clicked. Notice that the background color changes to green, and the type is now brown, showing that the link has been visited.