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Navigation elements are the key for users to be able to move
around your site with confidence.
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"Think of architecture as the ordering and structuring
of your basic content, and navigation as the reflection
of that structure in the devices that move you around
that content"
from Site
Architecture & Navigation through Research
by Karen Charlesworth
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The most common navigation tools provided are button bars
and / or link menus.
Where to put your links?
When users get to your page, and it's not what they need,
they need links at the top of the page to alternative place
to go - other areas of the site perhaps. These sets of links
are often included in a bar at the left of the page - perhaps
with a different coloured background to set them apart from
the rest of the page content.
If the content on your page is useful to them, then they will
probably be looking for follow on links when they get to the
bottom of the page - so you could make further information
available there.
Naming links
Resist the temptation to give your links snazzy but ambiguous
names - remember the point is for users to be able to predict
what they will find on the linked page accurately.
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