Website Navigation Tips

Website Navigation plays a huge role in determining the stickiness of any site. Ask yourself this, what do visitors do as soon as they open the website? 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 Navigation & Layout

A lucid layout, neat navigation and using a lot of white space in site improves its looks. Try to continue the focus on content. That is why we recommend using dream weaver templates for any web site - all pages or a group of pages have one basic design & only the content varies - this way even if website is a modest distracting due to necessary effects, web design is noted once and then the visitor focused on the content automatically.

Here are a few significant tips:

a) Organize your web site navigation before designing to prevent cluttering up the site with forgotten links.

b) A lucid and uniform navigation system is a necessity.

c) If you have lot of links then you should use drop-down menus or fly outs for your main topics. If you have Dream weaver then macromedia drop-down menus are one of well-liked in-built "Behaviors". Otherwise you can use our own copy-paste code for drop-down menus.

d) Keep a sitemap or section contents/home pages to help people find what they are looking for with simplicity.

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

f) Keep your important links mutually as much as possible so that visitors can attract them at one shot & know what your website conveys about your company. Verify how all our major links appear in our top navigation bar & all linked links are listed in the right hand side menu.

g) There is no problem in showcasing important links or even repeated links that you think might interest the visitor. Small boxes describing the link should look excellent.

h) If you like a graphic intensive website & find there is not much space for accepting 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 & your inner content pages can have elaborate navigation structures while focusing on the content.

i) Use your navigation space professionally. Use short, clear & precise words in your links so that your users know what the corresponding page will contain.

Take a look at our Custom Web Design Portfolio to observe the various kinds of navigation systems you can use.