As more GateHouse Media newspapers transition to the the new Zope template, GHnewsroom.com will share how newsrooms are managing certain areas of the new site successfully.

"New Template Tips" debuts today and will run every Tuesday for the next nine weeks. The feature will include tips from editors on navigation, the carousel, the promotional scroll and more.

Today's topic: Navigation

Today's question: How have you used the secondary navigation area on your homepage and what kind of links or content do you plan on placing in that area in the future?

"It has allowed us to better feature some of the deeper content categories we have. They allow us opportunity to show we have blogs, social media pages and other Web sites such as The Dome. — State Journal Register (Ill.)

"We now use the secondary navigation to direct readers to their town pages. We plan on fleshing out some of the sub-navigation with departmental specific content. ie. under 'Business' we might have a link to a popular business blogger or under 'Education' maybe a hot button issue that is education specific." — Messenger Post

"We have a law enforcement tab, and anything law enforcement related gets traffic, too." — Crookston Daily Times (Minn.)

"The primary use of the secondary area is for targeted regular sections or areas of high interest. We added Twitter, Facebook and text alerts. We also added Weird News recently, which we hope will take off." — Observer Dispatch

"We use secondary navigation to get users deeper into our site(s). We’ve also used the secondary nav to point users to Newspaper Archives, databases, subsections, etc." — Rockford Register Star

What kind of experience have you had with your secondary navigation? Post your comments below.