Site Navigation Component
Definition
The Site Navigation Component is used to provide a consistent location and design for important links. These links typically stay the same across most if not all pages on a site.
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The Site Navigation Component appears directly beneath the Entity Branding (Banner) Component and above the Breadcrumb Navigation Component. While you are not required to have any links here, you must still render the component. This tells the user that a site does not have site-wide navigation and will not spend effort searching for it.
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Initial Release: 05/01/2004
^TopYou can have any number of links in this area, but it's best to try to keep the number down so that this component will display the links on a single line at 800x600 resolution at medium font size. The only stipulation for this component, according to the Internet/World Wide Web Design and Publishing Enterprise Standards [doc], are that any links present in this component be in Veradana font and visibily separated by a non-linked "|" (no quotes), a.k.a the pipe character.
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The default HTML contains placeholder links, indented to coincide with the right-edge of the default Content Navigation Component. You will have to update the HTML for your own links. You can make stylistic changes to the text and links through each scheme's CSS file, or override it in your own CSS. For tips on how to do this, refer to the F.A.Q.'s section on the Site Navigation Component.
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Variation 1
The variation contains placeholder links, indented to coincide with the left-edge of the default Content Navigation Component. You will have to update the HTML for your own links. You can make stylistic changes to the text and links through each scheme's CSS file, or override it in your own CSS. For tips on how to do this, refer to the F.A.Q.'s section on the Site Navigation Component.
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Variation 2
The variation contains no links at all, but still renders the component.
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