With the launch of online bookings for Indian Railways yesterday, we made some changes to our sitewide navigation. We added a link to 'Trains' in our main navigation; previously we used to link to it from the site's footer as it was a search-only product created by Cleartrip's Research team. Now, however, the trains product is a full-fledged online booking service, so we 'promoted' it from the site's footer into our main navigation.

The other thing we did was to add an always accessible 'more' link to the main navigation. Clicking on the 'more' link opens up a small collection of the most popular tools and content available on Cleartrip.

We're quite happy with what the 'more' link has achieved as we felt that our footers were getting very cluttered across the site, The new navigation lets us visually group related items together such as flight-specific tools. Also, while users familiar with our site knew how to get to these areas of our site, new users had a tough time finding them. Finally, the new navigation scheme gives us the flexibility to use footers more efficiently by making them more specific and contextual to different parts of our site instead of being common across the entire site.

We hope you find that the new navigation has made getting around the site easier and faster.