Website navigation has a useful purpose to the individual arriving to a web page. In a time where people want information quickly, it is important for a website to have good usability, so that people will not become frustrated and leave their site. The user will need some way of getting around to finding what they need or learning about the site.
Website Navigation: The Shopping Mall Analogy
Your website’s navigation tools and techniques should basically give users the answer to three questions:
Tips on your Website Navigation
Navagation is a method your visitor surfs thru your web site using links from one page to another page.
2 tips on effectively organizing your navigation
Not all links are created equal.
While all of your links may be important, you must sort and prioritize to come up with an effective navigation scheme.
Good Web Design: The Importance of Navigation
A well-designed website has many facets: gorgeous graphics, cool animations, drop-down menus, and of course, relevant content. Another important feature, often overlooked, is a good, solid navigation scheme.
Sandi’s Ts Site Review – Tweak Graphics, Navigation
First impression – I like the site. It’s “perky”, pleasant and has a lot of information about the products.
Web Site Accessibility – Navigation and Data Tables
Navigation Issues and problems:
Making your navigation consistent helps all users to find their way around your site. Whether you choose to put your links across the top, down the left or right side, or somewhere else is up to you, but make them easy to find and use.
Toolup.com Peer Review – Retool Navigation
On first glance, and during the initial loading of the site, (approx 1 minute) the “left column” overlaps onto the main body of the page, which was a little disconcerting for about a minute or so (Looking at the site through a 56Kbs modem connection) but then pops into place with no overlaps once fully loaded. That was a relief! Once all the java is loaded moving around your site is pretty quick.
Shaddow Domain Peer Review – Fix The Navigation
I must say.. the site does offer a very focused type of product.. but that is not the issue at hand.
Rethink Your Navigation Flow
A Site Review Of Gaslamp.org By Bill Bradbury of Identify.com.
First and most notably is the omission of an “about” page. Visiting this page for the first time I really wasn’t sure what I was looking at. Even though you have a statement “an eclectic…” I’m not sure what the site is for, what does it do for me and why would I come back?