Website Navigation Designed To Not Make You Think

[snakeair]

Pretty good blog post to read.

The idea for this article came from a recent experience working with a potential client. I was reviewing his current business website that he was interested in redoing. In these situations, I try to be diplomatic but honest in my reviews. No one wants to hear that their website is terrible, so I try to point out where I believe improvement is necessary without tearing apart the entire site. You never know if the client did the work themselves and happen to be very proud of what they did without having any design experience at all.

During this review, I came to realize that when it comes to certain aspects of website usability it goes beyond "keep it simple, stupid."

One of my comments about the current site was that...

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Any comments on the authors blog post? Have you ran into a similiar thing when working with a new client?

[WebOut]

The article serves as a wake-up call. Navigation is very important. Once the visitor can not find where he is and where he will go, he can immediately exit and find another one eventhough you business products can offer what he is looking.

[BiologyWebmaster]

I have always placed key emphasis on my site's navigation. This is the one thing which I am always thinking about on how to improve.

Internal link structure, is key to any good website. Internal links serves as means of getting your site visitors deeper into your website structure.

I like how the article asks questions: Where am I? Where have I been?

This is crucial for a webmaster to understand, so that through your website design, you can influence the paths in which your site visitors will utilize.

Right now I am working on creating breadcrumbs for each of my site's pages.

Much Thanks,

BiologyWebmaster

[nathan.joshua]

It does look like more and more web masters are becoming aware of how important navigation is.. just look at all the huge footers with 100 links on them hehe.

Footers used to be for unimportant links. ToS, Privacy, etc.. now its full of navigation elements. Which I'm not complaining about by no means

[williamxaviers]

Its a fact that a website contains a general information regarding any of the topic, but a developer should not forget while developing a website that it should not contain too much of web pages or it should not be too deep, so that it becomes irritating for a person to find even the home page to come back. So for this purpose a navigation key must be provided.