New menu style available (horizontal navigation for site sections)
The UMaine website design allows for site navigation as a horizontal bar below your website header title and image. This is sufficient for many sites, but larger websites do need “sub-section” navigation for better usability.
To date, this has been accomplished using the sidebar template on pages where a secondary menu can appear. Our Digital Communications website showcases this behavior (the lefthand column on pages has navigation specific to our area of Marketing and Communications). While this solution works well for text-heavy content, it is not ideal for pages making use of content blocks where the full page width is more appropriate.
New menu style, “tertiary navigation”
Our new menu location is named “Tertiary Navigation” in the menu editor. It works in much the same way as the sidebar menu solution, in that rules are set to determine when the menu is shown or hidden. You can see this menu style on our user guide, in the Content Blocks help section.
In order to avoid problems with existing content, this feature is turned off by default and must be enabled by our team for your use. If you are interested in making use of this new menu location, please contact us at um.weboffice@maine.edu and we will work with you to enable this feature and set it up for your website.