Website Navigation

In: Web Design

24 Sep 2010


Once a visitor comes to your site you want to make sure they can find what they need quickly and easily, or they will simply go elsewhere. If a website is easy to use and understand the visitors to return again and again.

With intuitive navigation techniques will greatly enhance the usability of your website and the user satisfaction and return rates. With its intuitive navigation, I mean a kind of menu, map or the list that is immediately comprehensible to most visitors to your website.

A first point to a website is easy to navigate to a menu that all sides have met. With a menu that is on every page of your site, users of any section of any other move, with with, to the home or in the menu.

Keep recognize the menu at the same place and in the same style of your site that visitors quickly how to navigate your site. If you have a different style menu on each page, users confused and not so easy to understand how to navigate your site.

Another useful tool is a webmaster for the visitors is a site map. A sitemap is a page with an organized list of all pages within the site. Instead of the system menu of the website and through the categories by clicking on links on different sides, includes a visitor the opportunity to go the sitemap and click directly on the page you are looking for.

Although there are a lot of fancy buttons, graphics and dirt which can be used for navigation, from simple text links are the best bet. On the one hand navigation menu text link load quickly. Many Internet users are on slow connections and do not want to wait for a complex navigation system for download. Text navigation menus can also add text to the engine results, while image navigation bars do not. Text navigation is also sure to understand your users, which on the link.

If you choose the graphical navigation menus, you may want to add a redundant text navigation menu at the bottom of the page to ensure readability and search engine spiders.

Many new webmasters are trying to use images to create a navigation menu that is displayed on all sides to create. The advantage is that the navigation is still a view even if the rest of the page scrolls. But as executives from other sites or reconstruct a webmaster can not be sure, a website with frames considered to be right. If a person goes to a page on a search engine designed to provide a navigation has been having a frame, the user menu is not displayed. For this reason, it is important to add a link to your homepage on each page, so viewers can see your site as intended.

Even if you do not support frames, it would be useful, a link to the home page of your website on every page, can ensure the user of the “beginning” to see from your site.

Keep the navigation menu at the top of the web pages so that users can use the menu when the page loads to see. If a user to browse, navigate to other pages on your site, they are less inclined to do so.

Finally, it is important to keep in mind that when it comes to the site is simplicity the key. If a user can not see immediately what they need, they will not have time trying to find it, but rather to go to the next page.

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