CSS dropdown Navigation Structure for PR passing?

[iAnalyst.com]

Hello,

We are designing a very large site with hundreds of landing pages that will need to get some of the Pagerank and trust our homepage has, so we are trying to make sure our navigation architecure is well set up correctly from the beggining.

I'm curious though if I need to have left side CSS dropdown navigation (I know no javascript) like www.adventurebound.com or if we can just use the top style dropdown like www.adventurefinder.com has?

I know straight HTML links would be best but unfortunately our site will be too large and complex for that.

Thanks in advance!

[GeorgeDavis]

CSS drop down menus are fine to use, as long as the links are readable by a search engine and there are no settings prohibiting crawlers from indexing them, they should pass PR.

In fact I just logged out of seomoz to check and even they use a css drop down menu.

[RyanKent]

Can we just use the top style dropdown like www.adventurefinder.com has?

Yes.

If you are ever unsure, any easy test is to right-click on the page and View Page Source. Search for the text used in the navigation menu. If you can read the text in the page's source code, then Google can definitely read it as well.

Even if you can't read it, Google MAY be able to still pull the data. It's one of those things where if you can see it then you are fine, but if you can't see it you may still be fine as well.