Advice and opinions on my link choices

[2161]

I'm going to be doing an update to my website in the next few weeks and I can't decide on how to arrange the links. I think I have too many, but I'm not sure, so I decided to ask your opinion and maybe hear some of your ideas as well. It's not a big website (less then 20 relevent pages) and it's based on Aerial Photography. I'm kind of an advanced novice of websites, I do hand write all the XHTML and CSS (It's my thing.....LOL). I don't have any experince with Java or Scripts yet.

All the links are centered in the center of the page horizontally. The first row is at the top of the page and the second row is at the bottom of the page. NOTE - Realtors, Marketing, Houses, Farms, and Lawyers are all seperate pages as I didn't want to just throw all the pictures together into one page.

(Top of page)
Home | Photo Shoot Prices | Realtors | Marketing | Houses | Farms | Lawyers | Enlargements

(bottom of page)
Contact us | Our Equipment | Copyrights | Privacy Policy | Feedback | About Us

Any advice or ideas on arranging them or condesing them without losing the ability to navigate to important parts of the site?? I've been searching web sites on-line to see how they arrange their links, but I haven't found what I'm looking for.

Advice, ideas, tips, opinions are welcome. If you have some source code that may be helpful please keep it to XHTML 1.0 Transitional or CSS which is all I use. I am currently practicing XHTML 1.0 strict as I would like to rewrite the site using it.

THANKS!!!!! :)

[redsox9]

Hi, 2161:

For the top menu, I might suggest that you create a link called PORTFOLIO. Then, that will take you to a page where you can then have a secondary menu that links to the sub-category pages. Another option might be to create an in-line pull-down menu, again labeled PORTFOLIO, to keep those links active on the front page. There are some Javascripts out there that can do this and it might be worth it to become familiar with this.

The bottom menu reads like the typical boilerplate so I don't see any need to change this.

Good luck!

[2161]

I like the Portfolio idea as I was considering it myself. I wasn't sure if that would be OK to use. I would like to keep the links on the homepage because we have Realtors that check us out from time to time and I want them to be able to find our work easily.

I have no real time limit on the website update, so I am taking the time to work on XHTML 1.0 Strict which means I have to clean up the code a little and make it neater which is the cool part of writing it. Thanks for mentioning the Javascript, I was not planning on using any, but I might reconsider.

I'll drop by here from time to time and see if anyone else has dropped of some ideas.