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Web Design- Tips To Best Navigation Designs |
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You would observe many practices for page navigation in web designing but you must keep two aspects in your mind. Firstly, it should allow the search engines to find all relevant pages of your website and secondly it must allow visitors to find their way quickly and easily around the website. If the visitors will find it to difficult to get to the required page, it is observed that most of visitors do not bother to stay on the website for more than 8 seconds. Thus, it is extremely important to keep the mentioned basics in your mind. There are some other important tips that you should keep in mind while creating the navigational structure in your website design: - 1- You should not change the navigation layout on every page of your website, as it can be very distracting to the visitors.
- 2- You must highlight the text links by changing the font color and size from the rest of the text. If you will keep the same font and font of anchor text, there are more chances that visitor will over look the link and you might lose a potential customer.
- 3- If you are using JavaScript or image links or flash, you must use text link equivalents to the pages that you are linking to as it would make sure that visitors using browsers that cannot read the used technologies, would have an option for the links.
- 4- It is significant to give a link back "home" because there can be a chance that there is a visitor who is navigating deep into the website and want to your home page. Thus, "Home" page link would facilitate the visitor to get the required information without any hassle.
- 5- You can leave breadcrumbs if your website has few pages by adding home page, category page, sub category page and then display the current page name for confirmation. This way, your website would look more professional and it would helpful for visitors to get to the required information easily and to navigate back.
I am sure you can create a perfect web design, if you will keep the above mentioned tips in your mind to create navigation pages. E-telegence.com is a Web Design Company based in Falkirk (20 Minutes from Edinburgh) in Scotland.
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