Navigational Change

[ATP]

Morning Mozzers,

Currently our website has 2 navigation bars.

The top Navigation is the typical **Home - Products - Services - Contact - About **type thing

The side navigation contains a link to top level categories, if a category is selected it shows the child categories
Eg.

Socks
Shoes
Boots

Cateogry level (Socks)

Blue Socks
Red Socks
Green Socks

The top navigation has drop-down menus built in whilst the side nav does not.

Would it be worthwhile to edit the nav bars so that the top nav bar contains the categories with the child categories displaying in dropdown list when clicked.

Top Nav
Home - Socks - Shoes - Boots when hovering over socks you would see

Socks
Blue Socks
Red Socks
Green Socks

My reasons for the change I could remove the thin content "Products page"

It would add a link to the categories and sub categories from every page on the website as it would be in the top navigation bar i think this would help with ranking for some of the sub-category pages that struggle.

It would allow me to remove the left nav bar on the homepage, moving more content above the fold and give the website a more modern feel.

What do you think? Is would this be a positive or negative change?

[Everett]

Assuming the links you add to the top navigation are followable href links I think this sounds like a good idea for the reasons you state, as well as sounding more mobile and tablet friendly. It would be good to see the site though.