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navigation This website is about good and bad navigation and hyperlinks. It will tell you what is a good navigation system and what is not the best type of navigation. It will also talk about how to use hyperlinks properly and when they are used correctly or when they are used wrong.

Navigation

Some advantages in navigation would be...

  • Text links are ok for fast download time.
  • You can make the text be keywords.
  • Graphics are interesting and draw peoples eyes.
  • They give your user a visual picture of the button.
  • If you add alt tags then your website can still be navigated.
  • You can add alt tags that have keywords and you could also use text links.

Some disadvantages would be...

  • Text links are very boring and dont interest the user.
  • The text links can be hard to read if there is a lot of blue links on your page.
  • Graphic disadvantages are the download times.
  • The beveled effect is trying not to be used as much but people like it because it appears to be clickable.

Other types of navigation are the Image Map, Drop-Down Menus, and Search Options. These are good ways of navigation but can be a bit confusing and are not the best choices for a website. There is also a good chance that the older browsers don't support these types.

Some examples of good navigation are...

Some bad navigation is...

Hyperlinks

Some correct things to do with hyperlinks are...

  • Be sure that all links work correctly.
  • Try not to rely on graphics only.
  • You dont always want to underline hyperlinks so you can remove them.
  • Try and place all links on the top, bottom, left, or right. (keep them consistent)
  • Make sure that your hyperlinks are visible against dark backgrounds.
  • On long pages use bookmark links.

Try not to do these...

  • Make your link be more than four mouse clicks away.
  • Change the color of your links on every page.
  • Have really long pages and not link from the bottom to the top.

Some good hyperlinks are...

Some bad hyperlinks are...

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©2007 • Created by B. Oberloier • last updated 1/24/07