Web Design As people “browse” the Web, they “land” on a page and “navigate” on a website. To find their way around they need a “navigation” system. Navigation is as important for web design as for a real life drive: when you drive on a new road you want to see clear marked destinations, exits and parking lots. You want to know where you are and where you go. So do your visitors. Fail to provide a clear road map and they will go back to where they came from. Navigation should be clear and simple. Or better: standard. That means: don’t go around renaming buttons. Use “home” for your index; not “back to base”. Although this “back to base” is rather clear, not all the web users are in the mood for riddles, nor do they have the time to start learning your rules, your style, or your symbols. Business - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under business/finance/loan/mortgage category more 1 2 3 4 5 Computers - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under computer hardware/software/peripheral category more 1 2 3 4 5 Internet - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing category more 1 2 3 4 5 Software - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under software category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Design - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web design/development category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Hosting - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web hosting category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Promotion - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under search engine optimization/internet marketing category more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Resources - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under other web category more 1 2 3 4 5 Recreation - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under travel/hotel/cruise category more 1 2 3 4 5 Casino - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette category more 1 2 3 4 5 Health - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online pharmacy/hospital/health category more 1 2 3 4 5 Shopping - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online shopping/gift category more 1 2 3 4 5 Miscellaneous - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under all other categories more 1 2 3 4 5 There are three major types of navigation: global, local and hierarchical. Web designers use global navigation for medium-sized and small websites to categorize the main points of interest. Hierarchical navigation refers to large websites – such as web directories, article directories, news portals and so on. This approach is somehow confusing for web novices: they cannot really find their way, especially when the navigational structure is not clear (some web designers omit important navigational elements such as “you are here”, “back”, “next page” etc.) One important note about local navigation: it works great when you need cross traffic. You could use embedded links to lead your visitors to information that is somewhere else on your website or on a different website. But if you need to link to another website use a target=”_blank” approach that will open the link in a new window. That’s how the visitors will not lose the path back to your website.

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