Looking at my ‘go to’ websites and looking at their design. Many have (3) menus on top…
Thoughts?
It’s the depth/breadth problem.
Sites that cover a wide range of topics constantly end up getting either too deep (scroll death) or too wide (menu death) to let the reader immediately get to just the things they want to read.
Back in the old pre-Web days, the problem was “solved” by folders within folders. So you’d have a newsgroup News with subfolders International, National, with subfolders by country or state, with subfolders… This still buried things too deep for some people to see/find, but at least if you knew which subfolder had what you were looking for you could find it.
With the Web, it started with tabs (which grew into menus). When things got too deep/wide on a site, you’d use submenus. But submenus beget more submenus eventually. That’s about where I am with my sites at the moment. This has led to the dueling menus approach, or in some cases menu-item-reveals-new-menu approach that some are using.