by José Fernando Ríos 14 years ago
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Navigatio type and page type are closed related.
Point visitors to their ultimate goal: content or functional pages.
Connects pages and features that help people use the site itself. These pages are generally not part of the main topic hierarchy of the site.
Also called anchor links, jump links
FOR A MULTI-LANGUAGE SITE
LANGUAGE OF EACH SITE AT VERY TOP OF HTML CODE
Content may differ based on the countr or market. A country selector allows visitors to pick their market regions.
As languages are often spoken in more than one country. And in many countries more than a language is spoken.
LINKS AT THE TOP OR BOTTOM OF THE PAGE
FUNCTIONAL PAGES
NAVIGATION PAGES
CONTENT
Important for large corporations that may have diverse product areas of businesses, extra-site navigation links to other related sites, sub-sites or companies.
Connects pages with similar topics and content, regardless of their location in the site.
The advantage of footer navigation is that it doesn't intrude on site content or functionality, potentially saving valuable real estate.
SOMETIMES PART OR ALL OF A SITE MAP IS INCLUDED
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
SITE CREDITS
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
USUALLY REPRESENTED BY TEXT LINKS
OFTEN TO A SINGLE PAGE
Provide access to important content or areas of the site that may not be represented in a global navigation.. They are contextual for the entire site, not a given page.
ON SUBSEQUENT PAGES REDUCED TO A DYNAMIC MENU
ON THE HOME PAGE, MAY BE POSITIONED IN COMPONENT OF THEIR OWN
OFTEN APPEAR AT THE TOP OR ON THE SIDE OF PAGES
TO ACOMPLETELY NEW WEB SITE
TO ONLINE SHOP AREA
TO RELATED SUB-SITE
Subtema
Also called associative links, related links.Though links may transition to similar pages at the same level within the site, they quite frequently lead to new content areas or even a new site.
LINK THE ENTIRE SENTENCE INSTEAD OF "CLICK..."
MUST MAKE SENSE IF READ OUT OF CONTEXT
ADAPTIVE NAVIGATION
Used to make recommendations mainly on e-commerce sites: "Customers who bought this product also bought..."
RELATED LINKS
Contestual navigation may appear at the end or to the side of content.
EMBEDDED NAVIGATION
Contextual navigation may be embedded within the text itself. As a resultcontextual navigation is often represented as plain text links.
Connects one page to another based on the hierarchy of the site.
It generally represents the top-level pages of a site's structure.
SKIP NAVIGATION
SHOW IT AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE
LINK BEFORE MECHANISM STARTS
EVERY MENU OPTION NOT ALWAYS NEEDED
Also called sub-navigation, page-level navigation, it is used to access lower levels in a structure, below the main navigation pages. Generally transitions from page to page are smooth and consistent and provides a great deal of context.
EMBEDDED VERTICAL
HORIZONTAL
INVERTED-L
Critics of an ever-present global navigation point to its intrusion on valuable screen real estate.
WORK FLOWS THAT CAN'T BE INTERRUPTED
STAKEHOLDER OBJECTIVES
STAKEHOLDER AND NEEDS
USER BEHAVIOR AND NEEDS
THE SIZE OF THE SITE
