Primary navigation is important for visitors; nevertheless it is advisable for programmers to also work on smaller doorways to be able to allow navigators to enter to relevant pages on the website as needed.

There are several types of doorways navigation, they are:

LEFT NAVIGATION, this is a known type of navigation. It must be 800 x 600 resolutions or higher, this can make navigation links and can easily be seen in its full first page. they do not easily fold under the screen. To have order and provide proper space for a body text, the links for navigation measurement of width must be smaller than 300px. Left navigation responds to the behavior of visitors, because they usually read from the left; reading navigation links, reading fresh content from the left and clicking the desired link.

The second type of navigation is TOP NAVIGATION. There are two advantages of using a Top Navigation, first; it has roomier content; second, it can contain important information. The challenge here is artistry of the web author, on how he can make it attractive to users. The tendency of navigators is to ignore links looking like adds. Be sure to make the navigation bar below the graphics not on top of it, this will make place the graphics at the header page. This is to avoid making an impression that it’s the only relevant information on the website.

RIGHT NAVIGATION is the third type of navigation. This is a difficult navigation to utilize because people using an English language website read from left to right. Users usually read first the navigation and then the text body For Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language users, Right Navigation is useful.

DESIGN TYPES OF GOOD SECONDARY NAVIGATION

Secondary navigation is links that does not include the primary navigation. Examples of this type are Links, Site Map, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy, About Us and Contact Us.

The location of secondary navigation on the web seems unimportant, but business and academic users finds secondary navigation important, especially topics like Terms of Use, Site Map, Contact Us, About Us and Privacy Policy. This type ofnavigation istakes primary importance especially when you are giving personal information on the site because of purchasing a product or offering your services to a client in another country; you need these guidelines before going into serious business. In case of possible misunderstanding, Terms of Use and Contact Us is very useful for clients and business providers over the net.

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