| Some
webmaster and webmistress, perhaps by unfamiliarity, do not
give the necessary value to the navigation and, with this, loose
visitors and precious awards. Without an easy and logical navigation
we stay lost. We should return to the home page constantly for
orient ourselves and this is very exasperating.
To
the colleagues that are building or reforming his website, I
like to revise some basic orientation about navigation that
I learned with some marvelous friends that countless times helped
me and oriented me in the improvement of my websites:
Create
an only menu, can be in flash, with graphics or of text, that
present all the content of your website and put it in all the
pages of the website. This will permit that the visitors jump
from a section for another without have that return to the home
page.
Use,
specially in award programs or in award won pages, buttons of
navigation that permits to return to the previous page, pass
to the following page and go to the top of the page. This system
is a little laborious (should be exempt of errors), but eases
in very for the visitor.
Create
a page with a site map, where will be described all the sections
of the website with its respective pages in order of importance,
alphabetical or numerical, all endowed with links for that the
visitor be able to, from over there even, drive itself to the
desired page.
Ease
the life of the visitor including in your menu (in all the pages)
options for that he can return to the home page and for that
he can send you an email. Sometimes we are going to pressure
several times the key of return for come back to the home page
and sometimes we do not find the link for send an email for
the Webmaster or Webmistress and this is terrible.
Test
all your links, specially of the menu, there is nothing more
stressful than the visitor has an encounter with one of those
famous pages of error, specially when finally located the matter
of their interest, matter this that did him visit your website.
This visitor, with certainty, will never come back to your website
after this experience.
I
expect sincerely that these orientations, that so much helped
me, can be helpful for those that are starting in this difficult
task of build a website, that the colleagues webmasters and
Webmistress concern, also, with the navigation, therefore without
this important article hardly we will achieve our objectives.
Lupercio
Mundim
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