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Site Navigation Design Tips

Published on 01/28/2010 by Wayne Foster
Navigation of links on your site are extremely important for your website design as they play a big role in determining how long your visitor stays and explores your site. Ask yourself this; what do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.
 
Give importance to Layout and Navigation
A clean layout and neat navigation and using a lot of white space for your site enhances its looks. Try to keep the focus on your content. It is very important that all your pages or a group of pages have one basic design and only the content varies. This way even if your site is a little distracting due to necessary effects, your design is noted once and then the visitor focused on the content automatically.
 
Here are a few important tips:
  • Prepare your site navigation before designing to prevent cluttering up the site with forgotten links.
  • A clean-cut and uniform navigation system is essential.
  • If you have too many links then you should use drop-down menus or flyouts for your main topics.
  • Maintain a site map or section contents/home pages to help people find what they are looking for with ease.
  • The navigation should be flexible enough to accommodate any amount of additional links in case you probably will be adding pages periodically. For this using drop-down menus or section home pages is essential.
  • Keep your main links together as much as possible so that visitors can absorb them at one shot and know what your site conveys about your company. Check out how all our major links appear in our top navigation bar and all related section links are listed in the right hand side menu.
  • There is no harm is showcasing important links (even repeated links) that you think might interest the visitor. Small boxes describing the link should look good.
  • If you like a graphic intensive site and find there is not much space for accommodating all your links, you can have a separate home (splash) page and all other pages as content pages. Thus your home page can have visual appeal and your inner content pages can have elaborate navigation structures while focusing on the content.
  • Use your navigation space efficiently. Use short, clear and precise words in your links so that your visitors know what the corresponding page will contain.

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Wayne Foster
Posted:January 28, 2010 Subject: Site Navigation Design Tips Comment
Navigation of links on your site are extremely important for your website design as they play a big role in determining how long your visitor stays and explores your site. Ask yourself this; what do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.

 

Give importance to Layout and Navigation

A clean layout and neat navigation and using a lot of white space for your site enhances its looks. Try to keep the focus on your content. It is very important that all your pages or a group of pages have one basic design and only the content varies. This way even if your site is a little distracting due to necessary effects, your design is noted once and then the visitor focused on the content automatically.

 

Here are a few important tips:


  • Prepare your site navigation before designing to prevent cluttering up the site with forgotten links.



  • A clean-cut and uniform navigation system is essential.



  • If you have too many links then you should use drop-down menus or flyouts for your main topics.



  • Maintain a site map or section contents/home pages to help people find what they are looking for with ease.



  • The navigation should be flexible enough to accommodate any amount of additional links in case you probably will be adding pages periodically. For this using drop-down menus or section home pages is essential.



  • Keep your main links together as much as possible so that visitors can absorb them at one shot and know what your site conveys about your company. Check out how all our major links appear in our top navigation bar and all related section links are listed in the right hand side menu.



  • There is no harm is showcasing important links (even repeated links) that you think might interest the visitor. Small boxes describing the link should look good.



  • If you like a graphic intensive site and find there is not much space for accommodating all your links, you can have a separate home (splash) page and all other pages as content pages. Thus your home page can have visual appeal and your inner content pages can have elaborate navigation structures while focusing on the content.



  • Use your navigation space efficiently. Use short, clear and precise words in your links so that your visitors know what the corresponding page will contain.
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