Main Menu
On the Division of Student Affairs website, standard navigation appears along the left side of each page so that a visitor can locate:
- A department with simple navigation
- A department with sections
- Any award, event, group, or program site
Main Menu
The main menu appears at the top of the left navigation column and provides
two levels of navigation with a one-to-one mapping to the physical directories
and pages on the site:
- The main menu will stay consistent across the section or site.
- Pages that do not appear in a subdirectory are displayed in the main menu with a direct
link to each page.
- Directories within a section or site are displayed in the main menu with a
direct link to each directory default page.
- Pages in a directory can be directly accessed from the main menu
by selecting them from a popup menu that appears when hovering over the name
of the directory in which they are contained.
Directory Menu
When visiting any page inside of a directory, a directory menu is displayed
below the main menu. This allows navigation to other pages within the directory. The
menu title is the same as the name of the directory in the main menu, and the
directory menu shows the same items as the popup menu that appears when hovering
over the directory name in the main menu.
In pages where a directory menu is not displayed, a shortcut menu may appear.
Standard Navigation Restrictions
Based on the navigation infrastructure, the following restrictions are placed on navigation in the main menu and directory menus:
- No menu option in the main menu or a directory menu may disappear when clicked (therefore these items may not point to another directory, section, department, group, event, program or website)
- A top-level page link may not refer to a directory or a file inside of a directory
- A top-level directory link may not refer to a specific file inside of the directory
- Directories may not have additional subdirectories listed on a menu (therefore no pages of the site are more than three directories deep if they are accessed through standard navigation)
Navigating Upward
In order to return to higher places in the site, the following will work consistently across the entire site:
- To return to a page in a directory, click on the name of the page in the directory menu
- To return to a directory main page, click on the name of the directory in the main menu or the title of the directory menu
- To return to a section main page, click on the name of the section in the legend
- To return to a departmental main page, click on the name of the department in the legend
- To return to the divisional main page, click on the name of the division in the page header