subject: Basic Site Search And The Requirement Of Advanced Search In Websites [print this page] Navigation is an important part of website design. Be it an affordable website design or an expensive product, users must find the content they are searching for. And they must find it easily and without any hassles. If your site's navigation is bad, then no amount of great content can entice the user to visit the site repeatedly.
The common- and accurate perception is that website design can be made economically by using a talent pool of outsource designers. They charge a lower rate and are also proficient at what they do. A professional logo designer can create a brand identity for the company and promote the product and service through the site. Branding is essential in a networked world.
Designers providing affordable web site design insist on providing five navigation systems like hyperlinks, basic site search, advanced site search, site map and alphabetical index.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a huge repository of information content connected by an astoundingly huge number of hypertext links. Hypertext links are also known as hyperlinks- or colloquially just links. A hyperlink can be described as a text or a picture that can be selected or an information object connected to another. It is the principal method of moving around the World Wide Web. It is recommended that you as a website owner should go with the standard convention of blue colored and underlined text for text links that are unvisited. It is advisable not to use other colors, or to leave out the underline. If you use other colors, then the users of your website may be confused when clicking through the site.
Navigation in website design also includes basic site search. One of the most popular functions in a site is the basic site search. A basic search form should ideally be includes at the top of every web page. The facility of advanced site search permits users to refine a search. This comes in handy when the website has many- hundreds or thousands of products or content pages and is sub-divided into categories or departments. The advanced search option should be placed to the right of, or below the basic search form.
Almost all affordable website design layouts incorporate a site map. A site map is a visual model of the content of the site. It permits users to navigate easily inside the site. Site maps are arranged in a form of a hierarchy. The major categories are broken down into successive particular subject areas. Many different visual models exist. As a website owner, it is your job to examine the different site maps in different websites to find out the most suitable model for your site. Another navigational aid is the alphabetical index. It has a resemblance to the site map-the difference being that it is arranged in an alphabetical and numerical order, in lieu of a hierarchy. The index is composed of a keywords list. Each keyword in that list is linked to a page whose content is most relevant to the keyword topic.
