Rollover Navigation

[martink]

Does anyone have a tasteful example of a website that utilizes rollover navigation for both the top and left nav? My gut feeling is that it's a bad idea; however, I am looking for a suggestion of a decent way of doing it. I have a complicated website for study abroad company with secondary and tirshiary links and find that much of the content gets buried -but in a navigation sense, it is located in it's proper place. (e.g. A resident staff bio is located under Destinations/Country/City/Student Life/Staff - but it becomes difficult to find)

We had considered doing a Horizontal roll for the top navigation, and a vertical (off to the side) for the left...

Any help/advice appreciated. site is http://www.gowithcea.com

Thanks,
Martink

[arvana]

Why not have a different side menu for each section of the website? Then you could have your main sections (and possibly sub-sections on a second line) across the top, and specific pages listed on the side menu. That would simplify the side menu a lot without having to have drop-downs on the top -- I agree with you, that would get messy!

[Jomo]

As an extra suggestion, you could:

have a breadcrumb trail to help you navigate or
have multiple dropdowns within the single menu system showing multiple subsections.

Generally, people prefer to use one navigation system unless the two nag systems are for two distinct themes.

Jomo