A Good Site Menu

Because you cannot know the entry point of your visitors (or you lose a lot of potential visitors if you force them to go via the homepage), you need to cater to visitors arriving at any place in your site. There are some simple rules any menu system should follow to be usable and accessible regardless of how fancy it turns out to be in the end:

- At any point in time the visitor should know where in the page hierarchy they are and what is available in the immediate surroundings.

- The menu should be obvious to the visitor in the first few milliseconds they see the page. In order for a visitor to feel at ease with your site, it is crucial to distinguish between the page content and the connection to all the other things you have to offer.

- The current page should never link to itself - why should it? (One exception is if the link is a permutation of the current page, like a print version or a permanent link for a blog entry, but neither should be part of a menu.)

- The menu entry of the current page or, if you are on a page deeper in the hierarchy, the entry and its parent section should look different than the rest of the menu. Visitors should be able to quickly identify which part of the site they are in.

In addition to these basic principles for the site menu, there are other ways of giving visitors a helping hand when they arrive on one of the pages of your site.

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