Beneficial Web Site Menu & Navigation
August 22nd, 2008
Control is what most expect when navigating the web. Users of menus should feel like they know where they are and where they’re going to go. Interactive websites benefit from menus and navigation by allowing the user to feel confident they are at the right location and where to go next. Menus and navigation allow the user to browse in sequence, randomness or in circles and still have a sense they are within the same domain.
Menus and navigation serve beneficial to the user by allowing the user to initially land on any page and be able to continue without breaking stride. Too often I have landed on a page and wondered how I could manipulate the URL in the address bar to get to another page within the same domain. In this scenario a clear menu structure would serve very beneficial. http://amazon.com is a fine example as well as my reference, webstyleguide.com.
Reference:
http://webstyleguide.com/interface/user-centered.html
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