Display Pages And Subpages Via A Drop-down Horizontal Menu

You want your sidebar ads above the fold where they can immediately grab your visitor’s attention, but you want your pages to be accessible too. There’s only so much space visible above the fold in even the biggest of sidebars. So what do you do?

The answer is to use horizontal menus for navigation. This not only frees up sidebar space, it also allows you to use a page template without sidebars should you need to, while still making the rest of your site accessible to your visitors. Hover over the tabs of the Abundance theme’s main horizontal menu, and in addition you’ll see any sub-pages you’ve created appear in a drop-down menu beneath their respective parent pages too. The category menu works in the same way.

This has all kinds of uses, depending on the type of site you’re building and it’s end purpose. I’ve used it in the past to make Forex tools easily accessible, as well as football league tables, horoscopes, eBay ‘stores’ that needed to stand apart slightly from the rest of the site in terms of navigation, and to show the various categories of an embedded Amazon aStore. It’s a more versatile feature than you might think.