One of the most frustrating experiences you can have on a website is being unable to figure out where you go or where you are. At Frisco Web Solutions, we’d like to think that for every web designs, navigation is a concept we’ve managed to master. Here are two navigation features to consider:
Navigation – Where can you go?
There are a few commonsense rules to remember. Buttons to travel around a site should be easy to find – towards the top of the page and easy to identify. They should appear as navigation buttons and be thoroughly illustrated. The button text should clearly depict where it is going to navigate you. Besides, it’s also essential to make navigation usable.
For instance, if you have a rollover sub-menu, ensuring a person can to the sub-menu items without losing the rollover is essential. Likewise, modifying the image or color on rollover is outstanding feedback for a user.
Orientation – Where are you now?
There are numerous approaches to orient a user so there is no excuse not to. In a larger site, bread crumb trails, sub-headings and a site map might be used for the truly lost. In small sites, it might be simply a matter of a ‘down’ version of the appropriate button or a big heading in your menu.
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