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Navigation Rules & Options
Tutorial
How the user navigates around your
web site can make or break your site. If the site is too
difficult to navigate around the user is not going to enjoy the
time spent on your site and may leave or not return again.
With this in mind you need to make your navigation controls as
obvious and simple as possible.
Keep the navigation controls consecutive. It's no good changing
the colour or the place of your navigation controls, as this
will only confuse the user. Using frames for your site may help
with this.
There are different ways you can create navigational controls
for your web site and they are: -
Text
This is the simplest way to link pages on your site. Although
not as attractive as graphical navigational controls you are at
least guaranteed fast downloading times and can be viewed in all
web browsers.
Images
Using images to make navigation buttons to link the various
pages on your site together can really make a site, but not
everyone, such as the visually impaired and browsers that don't
display images, will be able to view the buttons. To overcome
this problem you can use the HTML ALT tag, which will display a
text alternative to your button images.
With images you can use icons or symbols to represent where the
link will lead. Again here you must be careful, as what means a
mailbox in your country may have no meaning to people from other
countries.
It maybe good to use text links with your icons or symbols, that
way you get the best of both worlds.
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