nce a visitor gets to your Keeping the menu in the same
web site, you want to make location, and in the same style
sure they can find what throughout your site ensures that
they are looking for quickly and visitors quickly recognize how to
easily, or they will just go navigate your site. If you have a
elsewhere. If a web site is easy different style menu on every
to use and understand, visitors page, users may get confused and
will come back time and time not as easily comprehend how to
again. navigate your site.
Using intuitive navigation Another useful tool a Webmaster
techniques will greatly improve can include for visitors is a
the usability of your web site, site map. A site map is a page
and therefore user satisfaction containing an organized list of
and return rates. By intuitive all the pages or sections of the
navigation, I mean some sort of site. Instead of moving through
menu, map or list that is the site's menu system and down
instantly understandable to most through categories by clicking on
visitors to your web site. links on different pages, a
visitor has the option of going
One of the first points to making to the site map and clicking
a site easy to navigate is to directly to the page they are
have a consistent menu that is on seeking.
every page. By having a menu that
is on every page of your site, Though there are many fancy
users can move from each section buttons, graphics and rollovers
from any other section, with out that can be used for your
having to go back to a home page navigation menu, sometimes simple
or menu page. text links are the best bet. For
one, text link navigation menus
are fast loading. Many web viewed correctly. If a visitor
surfers are on slow connections comes to a page through a search
and do not want to wait for a engine that was designed to have
complex navigation system to a navigation menu added with a
download. Text navigation menus frame, the user will see not see
also can add relevant text to the menu. Because of this, it is
search engine results, whereas important to add a link to your
image navigation bars cannot. home page on every page, so
Text navigation also helps ensure viewers can see your site as it
your users understand what the was intended.
links mean.
Even if you are not using frames,
If you do opt to use graphic it would be helpful to have a
navigation menus, you may wish to link to the home page of your
consider adding a redundant text website on every page, to ensure
navigation menu at the bottom of users can find the "beginning" of
the page to ensure viewability your site.
and search engine spidering.
Keeping the navigation menu near
Many new Webmasters are tempted the top of the web pages ensures
to use frames to create a that surfers will be able to see
navigation menu that will appear the menu as soon as the page
on all the site's pages. The loads. If a user has to scroll to
benefit is that the navigation navigate to other pages of your
will stay in sight even when the site, they will be less inclined
rest of the page is scrolled. But to do so.
because frames piece pages
together from other pages a In closing, it is important to
Webmaster cannot be sure that a keep in mind that when it comes
web page using frames will be to site navigation, simplicity is
key. If a user does not trying to find it, but will
immediately see what they need, rather move on to the next site.
they will not spend much time
About the Author:
Halstatt Pires is an Internet marketing consultant with http://www.marketingtitan.com - an Internet marketing firm in San Diego offering automated web site systems through http://www.businesscreatorpro.com.
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