The category pages might be useful for casual, "What else is there?" browsing. I recommend skipping them, because you can support this behavior from the target page.
If you decide to skip building category pages, incorporate categories in breadcrumbs. For instance: Home > Sports: Windsurfing -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, nik <nik.laz...@realadventure.co.uk>wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m putting together some recommendations for using mega drop-down > navigation. > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html > > I’m interested in the opinion of the iXDA list on whether the > top-level navigation items should lead to pathway (or landing) pages, > or whether they can simply act as non-hyperlink triggers to the > drop-down (so no hand cursor)? > > Also, if there is no pathway page, how should this impact breadcrumb > trails? > > For instance: > > Home > Sports > Windsurfing > > - Should ‘Sports’ be included in the breadcrumb trail (I’m thinking > yes). > - If a user crops the url, to http://domain.com/sports/ should this > be a 404, or a redirect to / ? > > Look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas. > > Thanks, > Nik > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
