Designing the website in the user’s perspective; is the best way of making the site user friendly. More often than not, visitors abandon sites that are too complicated to operate, especially when these are navigators pressed with time doing research. They take note of complicated sites mentally and will never ever visit the web address again.

It is advisable to benchmark with other sites, compare your own web site and try to see how you can make your own site user friendly. Try to see the number of pages you can easily retrieve from any part of the web. Is it easy to go to link pages? Are the links helpful for navigators? Can you see the site map of the website? Where are you on the site?

The Freedom of Positioning the Secondary Navigation

There is no general rule in placing secondary navigation. It can be placed anywhere, or just under the primary navigation. Secondary navigation is positioned in such a way that it will not over power the primary navigation. Web authors usually make the link smaller, allow an amount of space or use a separator so the user can strike the difference. If you are using a top navigation, the secondary navigation is usually positioned on the handside left of the webpage.

Helping Users Through Text Menus

There are two ways on how you can use text menus, they are: first primary naviation is used or an additional navigation is considered . Text menu is usually situated below the webpage. In the page menu, a text menu lessens confusion and saves on time. It is a proven a dependable navigation choice for browsers.

Creating Internal Links

Internal linking between pages is important in navigation. Web authors usually put links in other pages inside the page in the real text of the body in the webpage. It helps you find important and relevant information quickly, and it also attaches to search engine spiders and locate them in every web page. For example you are looking for a related page such as index, you may link it to word browsers and in turn it will attach itself to another related page.

The secret here is to place little set of links under the text to locate related resources and pages, so it can be accessed to similar and relevant needed information.

Useful links are very important for different types of navigators, especially when an academic researcher or a traveler is in a tight deadline in locating relevant information.

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