Modernly Functional Navigation For Your Website

Not all things about creating a website design have to be significantly thought-provoking and interesting.

One good example is your site’s navigation. The clients use the navigation in order to reach specific contents; so basically, it is the highway to your products and ideas. An ideal highway leaves no room for guesswork. It should contain obvious and clear signs to let people know where to go.

Here are some tips on making the most out of your site’s navigation:

Keep It On Top

This one is particularly important when it comes to your navigation. If you want your content to be easily found, you’d best generate a well-maintained method to do it. Keep your essential navigation at the top, where it’s normally placed since the beginning of the Internet.

Constant technology progression results in new conventions, and with nearly a decade of using smartphones, placing your menu to the right or left portion is already an acceptable way to arrange a site.

An added bonus of fitting the menus on the right or left corner of the page is that it helps make the transition from web to mobile even faster for the customers.

The Drop Downs

Drop downs menus made sense a few years ago when the main navigation utilizes only point, click and hover to get from place to place on the web.

But nowadays, as the desktop and mobile web becomes closer to each other, it’s time to ditch the traditional navigation. Your site should already be optimized for mobile devices, so why construct another “hover” feature? A simple and organized menu should serve both your mobile and desktop users in the same way.

Call It What It Really Is

Your navigation is not the place to reveal your entire creative writing skills. A category called “Well-regarded Equipment” may satisfy your marketing department, but it’s not going to help your clients know what to make of it. It’s best to simply label it with “Products”.

The same is true for other areas of navigation such as the “Contact Us”, some sites refer to it as “My Account” or “Hit Us Up” but it shouldn’t be named anything other than the simple and clear choice.

By keeping your navigation categories straight-forward and easy to access, you can guarantee your clients to go precisely where they need to.

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