A new way to improve customer experience and usability through your Magento eCommerce website is to have a visually appealing and easy to navigate mega drop-down menu. Websites using a mega drop-down menu are able to have extra content without causing the website to appear cluttered and hard to navigate. A mega drop-down menu lets all the content be shown at once without having to scroll through the website and makes finding products easier. Moreover, using a mega drop-down is an excellent way to keep information and product categories organized. Some of the mega drop-down navigation features are categories and sub-categories, recommended and featured items, thumbnail images, links to articles, and easy to customize navigation. Mega drop-down menus aren’t only for desktop use. They can easily be customized for a tablet or smart phone to enhance your customer’s shopping experience.
Here are a few examples of high quality Magento themes that include the mega drop-down menu feature:
Ultimo is an easy to customize responsive Magento theme that comes with a beautifully designed mega drop-down menu and over fifty CMS blocks that allow you to easily add content anywhere on your e-commerce website. Colors are completely customizable as well. Ultimo is fully responsive to fit any tablet and smart phone.
Ultimo’s mega drop-down menu allows the user to have up to four to eight columns with custom, multilevel drop-down blocks. Categories can also be stacked to form two rows. This allows for more room for content. The user has the option to display recommended or featured items to the right of the categories. This allows the user to see most of the content on your e-commerce website without scrolling. Each category can have either an icon or banner to represent each item. Ultimo’s unique mega drop-down menu features will definitely leave a lasting impression on potential customers.
Milano is another easy to customize Magento theme, which includes the mega drop-down menu feature. This elegant theme has two different versions of their layout: white and dark, but the user has the freedom to customize the colors and layout to their liking. Unlike most themes, Milano has a “Look of the Day” widget and Pinterest blog feature.
Similar to Ultimo, Milano allows you to have images, featured items or even links to articles and blogs displayed next to the categories in the mega drop-down menu. This theme is organized, clean and will give your Magento website a classy and professional appearance. Milano also comes with a fully responsive design where the mega drop-down menu collapses into an easy to navigate accordion that displays all categories and sub-categories. With Milano’s sleek and functional mega drop-down menu design, customers will want to shop at your e-commerce website again and again.
Shopper is a sleek and visually appealing Magento theme that would add class to any Magento eCommerce website. This theme comes with or without a sidebar and flexible slideshow. Like the first two Magento themes, Shopper is another excellent theme with the mega drop-down menu feature. Shopper is a fully responsive and customizable theme that offers custom CMS blocks for all your content. It also includes unlimited color variations and an easy to edit mega drop-down menu. Shopper allows the user to have as many columns they want in their drop-down menu while supplying a subcategory feature. Similar to Milano, the mega drop-down menu collapses into an accordion on a tablet or smart phone. With the Shopper theme, your e-commerce site will really make a statement.
Concluding, all three Magento templates mentioned above, Shopper, Milano and Ultimo, come with excellent mega drop-down menu / navigation. As to which one is the best it will be up to you to decide. After having used all three templates on various projects we prefer Ultimo, because it offers more flexibility out of the box by allowing you to add category images and lets you create custom blocks which lets you pretty much do anything.
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