Web Design Tips for Navigation Tools

In Web design, consider the visuals when you include the navigation tools that take visitors from page to page. When designing Web page navigation tools, you need to make them attractive as well as functional. These tips can help you do that:

• Differentiate the visual design of non-clickable and clickable elements: Don’t use the same graphic as a button on one page and a headline on another.

• Use visual feedback — a color change is a good visual, as in the following image — to enhance interaction and usability.

• Always place navigation in the same location on the page and don’t change its appearance.

• Always label icons. Illustrations by themselves are not always clear as to their function.