What would be considered best practice in the following situation in terms of usability?
Each section on a site has a "home" page, and several related pages as "children". Each page has a sidebar containing navigation links.
Assuming the user is on the "Meet the Staff section":
Do the links look like:
- Section Links
- Meet the Staff
- Fred
- Dave
- Bob
or would this be more "user friendly"
- Meet the Staff
- Fred
- Dave
- Bob
I'm concerned with the semantics - to have "Section Links" or something similar as a "header" for the sidenavigation, or to use the "Section Name" as the "header". Is having "Section Links" unnecessary, or would users perhaps benefit from knowing that they are links etc?
Hope this makes sense.