Outdoor Decor

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since March 20, 2004

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March 20, 2004, on 100 Things:
One of the most prevalent mistakes that I see in website design lies in the area of navigation and user-friendliness. Some tips on navigation: - Make sure that wherever your visitor is in your site, they can get to any other area - Make sure they know where they are!! If you have a deep site with lots of internal pages, I suggest placing a "You are Here" ICON with a path back to the top. This is sometimes known as "Breadcrumb navigation" - Readability. I sometimes see heroic graphical feats in navigation buttons, but ... bummer I can't read them .. or they are so loud and distracting that I can't concentrate on page content. - Be honest about your content. Don't mislead a visitor into going to a page on your site and disappoint them with content unrelated to the link text.