What is navigation and why we use navigation and for what?
Navigation is like when you steer a ship. If you don’t do it well, you hit an iceberg.
In terms of websites, navigation normally refers to the system for allowing users to find their way around a websites, from page to page, usually through a ‘menu’ of links across the top or down the side, or both. A site will usually have a main navigation—such as links across the top of the page—then ‘sub navigation’, such as a set of links down one side that are specific to a section of a site.
Then of course there are general links on a page, which could also be called navigation.
Have yo hit an iceberg yet?
Wow…What a question. Navigation just allows you to move freely within the website content
May be to ensure that your users don’t get lost in your site.
OR
You can drive your users in your desired path.
proper navigation is the main way the public can move around your website
The top navigation links start the main hierarchy of any website
Yeah right.
But make sure that you have a clean navigation menu in the sidebar and the footer so it can help to those who move around your site.
In relation to website design, navigation or menus or navigation menus are essential to access the various areas of a website. It is a type of map showing what items (pages) you do have and what items you can access.
There are two major placements of navigation menus: horizontally or vertically.
You can use one or more placement types on a page but you have to be careful that you don’t over use it. Over use of menus will end in a clutter issue for your website.
Navigation menus make it easy to locate all areas of a website and should be present on all pages. In cases where full menus cannot or don’t have to be placed a simple back button (which counts as navigation by the way) will suffice.
Think for a moment that you went to a restaurant and there was no way to tell what they had. All signs just say restaurant. You would not know what they had or what they didn’t have and you would spend a long time locating something to eat.
Same thing for navigation. People visiting your site may want to go to a different page to view something and without a navigation they’ll leave and not come back. Which leads me to my next point about the purpose of navigation.
If people cannot easily find a navigation bar to go to a different area of your site, they’ll leave in frustration. Furthermore navigation is helpful for building sitemaps which you can submit to google or other major search engines which will help people to locate your website easier.
That’s about all I can say for now.
Hope this helps
Navigation are the links used to move from page to page (or section of a page) on your site. The post above give hints to GOOD NAVIGATION.
