The Case Against Vertical Navigation – Smashing Magazine
A lot to read and it’s worth it, but the general nutshell:
- “allowing content areas to have strong visual focus”
- left navigation is virtually ignored anyway
I don’t know how this translates when dealing with large corporate clients that feel the need to put everything on their website. What is most likely required would be a strong conversation explaining why that website doesn’t need the 20 page history of the company in it’s own section five levels deep in the Information Architecture. However, this argument definitely lends itself well to the concept of Building Small Things.