Designing Menus and Navigation

By providing a menu in the left sidebar, you make finding information all that much easier for your mobile users. Like menus designed for computer screens, menus designed for handheld devices work better when they're easily identified as links. One technique for making menu items or buttons identifiable is to design them so that they provide feedback. You can, for example, tell links and buttons to change color — making them appear highlighted — when the user selects or tabs to them.

Yet another tried-and-tested mechanism for identifying text as a link is to underline it. As you create your menu in the sidebar and your e-mail and telephone links in the footer, you'll use both CSS methods to format the navigation links on the home page.