Journey Multimedia

For simplicity sake, and the sanity of myself and my clients I have decided to start developing all new drupal client sites with the Simple Menu module. Simple Menu takes the default authenticated user navigation (typically on the left block) and places it along the top of the page - works great with any theme and looks really clean and slick.

However, if you are the developer and the sole user of the website I recommend that you install the Admin Menu module instead. The Admin Module takes the navigation a few steps further, making it quicker to navigate around your site. The Admin Module deep links into the
sub-navigation of all the admin pages and added on modules. This saves a ton of time.

Don't use Admin Menu module for client sites - it will not properly hide menu items that clients to not have permission to use.

These two modules will likely converge in the future - but in the mean time, stick to using the Simple Menu for clients and Admin Menu for yourself. Of course you could always install both and only give yourself permission to view the Admin Menu.