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CSS Quicklinks

Standard "Quicklinks" on a university website are intended to get links onto the homepage that don't fit into the standard navigation, such as links that cater to specific needs or links that are popular but not quite popular enough to be in the top 10 links on the homepage.  While it saves space and gets a variety of information out to the homepage (or into the site-wide navigation), using select lists in forms (the standard method) creates a user-unfriendly experience with little organization.

With the site redesign, we decided to do something similar to Amazon's "View all Categories" tab, where a set of quicklinks appears in a floating layer instead of a select box.  This allows us to present the links in any way, including what we eventually decided upon, simple UL lists.

The UL lists are the standard Ektron CMS400.Net menus, which means that a logged-in site administrator has the ability to edit quicklinks from any page.

The quicklink menus can then be edited directly through the standard CMS interface.

To see the quicklinks in action, click the "Quicklinks" link in the upper-right corner of any page on http://www.drew.edu.