Multiple Navigation – Multi Hierarchy Web sites

  • Hello,

    Using wordpress as a CMS, is it possible to achieve the following?

    You have 2 top level navigation systems. They both display horizontally, one all the way at the top and the other one, right after the logo let’s say. let’s call the first one Navigation system ABC, and the second one navigation system XYZ.

    so we have a situation like this…

    abc1 | abc2 | abc3 | abc4

    and we have xyz1 | xyz2 | xyz3 | xyz4

    You may ask why have 2 different top levels? imagine the first nav to disect the site from a different point of view such as “by audiance” | “by location” | “by tool and services” | “by objects”. and imagine the second navigation system purely focusing on topical navigation such as “Soccer” | “Basketball” | “Tennis” | “Golf”

    and the sub menus ( 2nd level ) for each of these items ( be it for ABC or XYZ ) could be as widely different than from one another, for example, “by audiance” may have sub menus such as women, youth, senior and “by media” may have video, audio and “by location” may have usa,uk,europe and xyz nav items say, “soccer” may have “kids soccer”, “soccer apparel” while “basketball” having “usa basketball”, “nba schedule” etc…

    What I’m trying to say is that sub cats have no relationship to one another.

    In this case, if the user selects an item from the say ABC nav, next page should display **a theme** totally focusing that point of view. And if the user were to select a different ABC nav item, again, the theming system could be completely different… now small changes but drastically different… This is to serve a web site totally different from users to users depending on their audiance group. For example, if “seniors” is selected, the whole site now is served in big fonts and totally spaced out white on white zones, that are easy to read… and if “kids” were to be selected, the site all of a sudden using a kids web page template/theme as if you are in a totally different wordpress web site..

    Is it possible to do this with wordpress?

    If so, would you consider “pages” or “categories” for these ABC and XYZ systems…

    Or would you just suggest to use a different CMS to build such web sites?

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