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Does anybody think the navigation of our site is confusing.

Please answer YES or NO and if YES state WHY.

Ta

No, it's as good as it'll ever be for the amount of content you have on the site. Although exactly why you have a link just for EA games right near the top, I'll never know.

Just whatever you do - don't EVER make it ANYTHING like the PCWorld, Currys and Dixons sites.

NO, not at all. And if I ever do find it confusing, I use the Search feature to find the product I'm looking for anyway.

Darkus wrote:
> Perhaps a bit neater down the side like this:?
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darkus/

yes, that is much nicer.
No idea whats so special about the N64 though :p

No, but then I've been here over two years now. To post a question like that in the forums, you're really asking the wrong people. You're asking people who visit the site regularly and are very computer literate, really you want to be getting feedback from people who are not familiar with ordering online.

I'll also say that I used to think it was confusing to have so many links on the left hand side - especially those 'below the fold'.

So many of the links seem unnecessary - why have so many separate links for PC Ram, PC peripherals etc when they could all be encompassed under 'PC hardware'? If you want all this detail to still be available, have a subcategory pop up when you have the mouse over 'pc hardware', or an extra set of links in the pc hardware page.

At the moment you have a huge number of different websites and sections with little structure, just held together by one very big navigation bar.

One idea might be to prune redunant links... you should have (or could set up) some way to record which links are frequently used, and which aren't.

eg, for every 1000 people who check out your special offers, how many do so from the two links at the top of the page, or from other parts of your site. How many use that link way down on the left below 'gamer of the year'?

NO

Darkus wrote:
> Perhaps a bit neater down the side like this:?
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darkus/

Yeah, I like that.

Darkus wrote:
> Perhaps a bit neater down the side like this:?

Yes! I like it!

I also prefer having the blue all the way to the edge, and the solid - rather than rounded - edge at the top left.

Perhaps a bit neater down the side like this:?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darkus/

Just out of interest, what competitor was Tony talking about in the post about staffd holidays and staff resuscitating (sp) a competitor, or something like that?

And back the the original point, the links above and below the banner are almost unoticable. The system I guess is fine, but very cluttered.

Apart from that, it's all good :)

The truth is a beautiful thing... :)