Side bar menu, good or bad idea.

[A_Fotografy]

Thank you for advise Peter.

I just looked at the sticky option. The skeleton you mentioned. I opened page on my mobile, but I didn't see the main menu. It was on my desktop, but not on the mobile so I'm not sure how does it work on mobile. Especially with two menus.

Does it mean that I would have two sticky menus on top? Like my main navigation one and one with secondary menu options?

I like idea of sticky, but just need to make sure that I don't confuse user

[Mobilio]

Skeleton have JS to NOT include sticky menu on mobile. But was nice example about mine idea and first that i remember quick during writing this comment.

Second idea is sticky menu with "Hamburger_icon Gallery Partners Price" for mobile and normal (just as now) for desktop. This probably can skip confusing users about menu and hierarchical structure of your website.

But as i said - A/B testing is needed.

[A_Fotografy]

Hi Egol,

Thanks for reply. I'm trying to link up relevant pages with hypertext.

The little box you talking about. Where ddi you see that? Did you use tablet or phone? I guess it might be that widget box you talking about. I'm taking that away and will place as an image in actual content.

Good advise about menu of related articles.

When you say duplicate menu at the bottom, do you mean main menu or sidebar menu. At the moment I have only sidebar menu at the bottom.

Thank you Egol.

[A_Fotografy]

Thanks Peter,

Now you are talking far too clever for me What is hamburger icon?

Also how do you do A/B testing for the site. Do you make two sites?

I'm not a developer, but can pass this onto him. Or maybe I can hire here to get this job done.

Thank you Peter.

[A_Fotografy]

Hi Peter,

Just looked up what means hamburger and I'm good now

So for my mobile site.

Do you think it could make sense to make 3 level menu. So main menu, sub category and then gallery, price etc menu?

Or Make main menu sticky and then hamburger with sub category and gallery, price etc menu?

Here is another thought I had,

What if I could make main menu as hamburger. Like I have now. Main menu and subcategory, but make sticky menu on top for side bar options ( prices, gallery etc?)

Do you think that could be doable?

Thanks Peter.

[Mobilio]

Well everything is doable - but remember about users first.

So - lets imagine that i'm looking for someone to be official photograph of mine wedding or engagement or baby photo session. So first if i look is text "i'm photograph that can make your special events memorable...". Ok - you have such text. Second is gallery, 3rd some reviews and pricing. Now in mobile design people just can't reach to them and you get visits with 1 page per session. Right?

That's why i think that "Hamburger Gallery Partners Price" could work. Hamburger is actual menu as now - just need to make it sticky with "Gallery Partners Price". WHY?

Let's assume that i'm on mobile and browsing for "Edinburgh wedding photographer". I see results (term is SERP - search engine result pages) and i click on your site. So i start reading your texts. And as i scroll down to them - sticky menu appear on top. And users can click on them - in result you can have user convinced that "here is the man". So they can give you a call or fill contact form.

2nd Idea - place somewhere in sticky menu "phone" icon that will be linked to your phone using "callto:here-is-your-phone-number". So give user another way to book you.

[A_Fotografy]

I love idea of including phone as I get mainly people calling me anyway. But if that would be active phone number which dials straight away, that could be cool.

Yes we have hamburger now. Let me get this right as I think we think the same. Are you recommending to add those subcategories ( gallery, prices, partners ) to the main existing hamburger, yes? And then make whole menu sticky, yes?

Thanks for your help.

A

[Mobilio]

Yup. Phone will be real and have confirmation to avoid incidental clicks.
No - adding subcats into menu will make navigation heavy for mobile users. Click hamburger, click category, click subcategory, click sub-subcategory. No way someone to nagivate there.

I sent you mine contacts on your site where we can discuss "boring details".

[A_Fotografy]

Ok I will wait to get it through. We can have a chat about this.

Thanks,

A

[EGOL]

The little box you talking about.

Make a small table or div and float it to left.

When you say duplicate menu at the bottom, do you mean main menu or sidebar menu.

You can do either.  Anything you want.