Good navigation is critical for ensuring that your visitors have a pleasurable experience browsing through your website. Clean navigation enriches and enhances the value of the website in the eyes of the visitors.

Following thumb rules should be applied when designing a site map of the website:

i)Your site navigation should follow your site structure.
ii)Once you have the top level sections of the site, move down till you come down to the last level of the website.
iii)Use readable and clear fonts on the navigation.
iv)Use Sitemaps.
v)Use cross linking for relevant pages.
vi)Clear and uniform style should be followed.
vii)Keep all the main links together so that the important sections of the site are easily navigable.
viii)If Use of Java Scripts is a must, then a secondary menu structure in Html should be placed.
ix)Expandability of the menus is also essential. In future, you might find that you need to add on new sections to your website and your menu structure doesn't allow this without going for major changes.

The web design company you choose should consider these factors before taking up the project. We ensure that we take these factors in to consideration when we design websites.

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