Mega Menus for Articles

Has anyone seen a good implementation of mega menus for sites that have articles? I’ve seen it on ecommerce sites, but so far don’t recall for information sites. I’m trying to figure out IA for a site right now, and I’m planning on using mega menus, but I am still grappling with the best display method. Thanks!

Hi!
Can you be a little more specific on what you’d like different for articles? Maybe an example you’re seeing?

I know that sometimes a megamenu will have a big chunk of text (and/or images) instead of just list items of links. I haven’t used it myself yet, but I’m seeing that Wayfinder can include your document’s description or introtext.

Cheers

Well, I can’t show examples because I was looking to be able to see examples. I found this article (http://designm.ag/inspiration/mega-menus/) with 25 examples, but they are all for ecommerce.

Basically, I am trying to work out some information architecture. The site goes as follows:
There are 5-8 basic marketing links, such as contact, about, and things like that. Those will be unobtrusive and out of the way, but accessible. The other 2 or 3 links I want to be more noticeable and not cluttered, but therein lies the problem. 1 will be ’free tips’, and the other 2 will be category headers for 2 of the categories within ’free tips’, which will lead to pages that use Ditto or something to display articles and teasers within that category.

I want to organize all the articles under ’free tips’. There are 6-7 categories within the free tips, each of which have (right now) 2-10 articles within. The mega menu, I’m thinking, will have all the categories within. BUT, if I do multi-column with floats, they won’t be evenly distributed. If I do multi-column that each category has its own column, I don’t have that issue, but then the mega-menu will fly out 7 columns-width, which is too big to be easily usable.

One idea I had was to do something similar to the Food Network mega-menu, http://www.foodnetwork.com/, where I don’t list all the articles within the whole category, but only list some of them, with a link to a category listing page.

I was also thinking of having the categories drop down again, and have the articles come from each category, i.e. a 2-level drop down menu, but I’ve been reading that mega-menus tend to be more user-friendly when they are organized well, and so would prefer to do it this way.

Any thoughts? Or even other examples of mega-menus, but ones that are not used for ecommerce?

Maybe have a look at this thread

Thanks for the link, but that seems to be more implementation, when right now I am doing some abstract thought on how it will be presented, after which I have to figure out the best way to implement it. That thread should come in handy at that point though, so thanks.