When entering a website its visual cues are important, and navigation is
the key component in a site. It is the site and how it is organized.
A poorly organized site isn't likely to keep you motivated to keep looking, or
to bring you back to the website.
Organization on a web site is similar
as the organization in a store. There are main sections then there is the
subsection within the main section. As you look through each section but don’t
find what you are looking for you restart the process. If the process seams too
daunting you can ask, or in this case on a website you can use the search bar.
Search bars have a delicate standard you don’t want to have a search bar to
find the search bar. People on the site are scanning for the word search,
avoiding other similar words is appropriate.
In some case, like
with a small website there is no need for a search bar. Using tabs as an indication
of what page you are on is great, but it isn’t strong enough. You need to also
have a title on each page. People can normally guess that the logo or ID is the
link to the home page up a very plain out “home” is helpful to place under the
ID. Navigation should remain constant it tells you where you are and where you
have been from page to page.
If you use tabs
instead of buttons make sure that they are used as tabs. Many people use tabs
before. By differentiating them and making one look prominent helps the user
know where they are in the website. “You are here” indications are an easy way
to show where the user is and where they have been and it is a great way to go
to a previous page, or all the way back to the home page.
And yet again more Inspa-rati-
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