Web Development
Article: Website Navigation Essentials
Though it sounds simple, one of the keys to making a website easy to use is giving people a clear indication of where in the site they are now, have been previously and should go next. This is the job of the site’s navigation elements.
In previous years, the consensus was that the main function of website navigation was to take visitors from your front page to the area of the site they wanted to visit. However in today’s search-engine-dominated World Wide Web, this model is unlikely to be the most accurate.