Published in Widgets that Work on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Besides being a very pretty website, The City Church provides a great case study for dealing with some complex navigational requirements.
Check out the website and have a click around (screenshots for posterity 1, 2, 3). Nicely done, no?
A lot of people are using tabs, and triangles and arrows and all that jazz on their navigation, but here we see them used together, and done beautifully. Then, when you get to the bottom of the page, almost all you need is there: a great footer site-map (see Cute Navigation for more) and the pertinent contact information. No doubt both of those help save users a few clicks around the website.
Congrats to the City Church and the Team at 31three for building something beautiful and possibly very functional. Thanks to wisdump for pointing it out.
I agree. I've been struggling for a while to come up with a second layer concept that looks and works as well as this. I guess my long over-due reboot is about to take a slightly different direction! Nicely done indeed.
Definately, it's the good example of combination of simplicity and good style. Visitors don't need unuseful items on the site.
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