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Menus , what makes for the easiest navigation ?
Hi

I have a local(regional) internet portal and am developing some of my content for wireless access... i.e., weather-radar, scores, movie times, tides, local business search(yellow page) etc etc....


What type of navigation works best...? I have had a few problems using drop down form types so I have gone to using hyper links...

What are the advantages / disadvantages of either ?

also with the drop downs I have found some phones (emulators anyway) won't navigate to the selections (especially if you want to get to the default selection) without a "go" or "select" button...???

Looking for input...TIA
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Hyperlinks are better because drop downs look like regular links on some phones, and they can make the navigating slower
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Yes, stick to links. Forget trying to get the buttons to play nice across all phones. I learned that lesson the hard way



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An Ordered list of links usually works Great because you can use the nuberpad 0-9 to click the link instead of scrolling to it
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