You can have all kinds of great attractions on your site, but if your visitors don't know how to get to them, they will just collect dust on the server. Worse yet, if the visitors find your site's navigation confusing or convoluted, they'll simply give up and head off to explore the rest of the Web, never to return. So, a good navigation design will be an essential ingredient for any successful website construction.
Before you get started with planning your navigation, you need to define your site's information architecture. Once you have an idea of the site structure and organization, you're ready to think about the navigation design. There are several things you should consider in deciding on your navigation design:
Accessible
Understandable and Meaningful
Prevalent
General Rules to Design the Navigation System
- Use navigation tag(s)
- Keep it simple
- Keep it consistent
- Easy to find
- User friendly
Requirements:
- Create a "navigation.html".html" page
- Create an "anchor.html" page to address the named anchors
- Create a "link-back.html" page
- Create the following common navigation elements and realize their functions
Common Navigation Elements :
- Spry Menu Bar
- Anchor
- Relative Hyperlink : Link Back Page
- Absolute Hyperlink : Truman VisComm
- Graphic Link
- Image Map (Hot Spot)
- Jump Menu