Plan Your Menu Structure

Web Site Navigation is Critical For a Good User Experience.

Web site navigation is all important. Too many sites are difficult to negotiate. Easy web page navigation is paramount to the successful browsing of your site so you must plan your menu structure well. You will find that users have only so much patience. If it is hard to find your way around, you will frustrate your clients, and you will not keep them for long !

Keep It Simple and Be Consistent

Users need to be able to find all that you have to offer, without difficulty. So when you plan your menu structure, keep it simple, and be consistent. You can find some funky menu building software here. Likno Menu Builders

Back To the Pen and Paper

When designing your web menu template, it is a good idea to write all of your main topics on a separate piece of paper, then write all of the related topics on their respective sheets. You could lay them out on the table, anywhere with enough space. This will give you the freedom to move them around until you get a logical order. This is a simple way to plan your menu structure.

Use a Different Page For Each Topic

You may have plenty of information already from any web business project planning or brain storm sessions you have done. Categorize your information or topics into a logical order. Try to build your site using a different web page for each topic. This really is a fundamental design concept you should adhere to when you plan your menu structure.

Use a Site Map

You could place links to the functional pages, like your contact info or your site map, in a footer menu. Yes, don't forget the site map. If all else fails, this is where your users will go. You could use a separate page menu for the Home page and contact page etc, like the mini menu here at Ecommerce Site Builder. Another way to plan your menu structure is to make your Home page the first main topic, with all the extra functional pages as its list of sub-menus. This is one of the most popular solutions. Just be sure that they are all accessible from every page.

Useful Information For Your Site Design

This menu planning actually does double duty as it also should give you enough information to start looking for an easy website template, a software solution, or maybe a place to build your page online. The information you have gathered will help you decide on the style of your design, or the type of template you choose, relevant to the amount of topics and menu headings you will need.

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