Hello, thanks for visiting - I hope that you will find useful information. but also leave a comment if you have any comments on the subject.
Among the most important elements of a website is definitely the navigation, because the best content avail little if they can not be found. Target when there is an intuitive navigation design, the target audience and content relevant to developing menus.
Navigation depth
Among the first considerations when creating a menu structure includes the number of navigation levels. Later, a large part of programming to build on this structure and therefore could pose major problems, any subsequent change of the navigation depth. It is recommended as these considerations carried out carefully and when in doubt, prefer a more level to be scheduled. This website is prepared for future extensions.
The navigation depth depends on the size and the hierarchical structure of the content. Accordingly, a shallow or deep navigational structure can be selected. Both options have advantages and disadvantages.
A flat structure allows a quick reach of the content, the user is able to reach all content with a few clicks later. Ebenen viele Seiten zur Auswahl stehen. With a high amount of information that means, however, that the user accordingly finds many choices, since even in the high-level navigation pages many to choose from.
Flat navigation structure
A deep structure has exactly the opposite. Here are more steps needed to access the contents may be. In return, however, the user is not confronted with so many choices.
Deep navigation structure
The choice of optimal navigation structure can not be answered generally. It depends on the content and target audience. For sites with very rich content is often a highly tapered structure is used. In this structure on the top level of navigation very few options are offered. . With increasing navigation depth increases the navigation capabilities. This structure is based partly on the observations that the utility increases with increasing knowledge and interest in the content. . It prepares a hardware specialists usually have fewer problems in the hardware group select 15 persons as needed without any special technical know - how. For this reason, first a very general grouping is made. With increasing depth of the content and specification may be more choices made available. Online shopping portals or news sites, however, often use a very broad, flat structure.
Examples:
Flat navigation architectures are often used by news sites. Since this will get very many returning visitors as quickly as possible to the desired subject. auswählbar sind. This also benefits derStandard entsprchend a flat hierarchy in which all the main topics at the top level navigation can be selected. Among them there is only one level of navigation to restrict the subject closer.
Navigation derstandard.at
On opel.de finds the counterexample to the traditional news sites. Here is a very deep navigation structure that your starting point in five main menu items has been used.
Navigation opel.de
Continued: navigation metaphors: Visualize menu items
Ähnnliche posts:
Navigation metaphors: Visualize menu items | grafixx.at
25th February 2009 at 11:57
[...] Sequel to "navigation design - find the right architecture." [...]