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Navigation Tips
The following tips are a guideline to
assist you the award applicant to understand what we are looking for
specifically. Reading these guidelines will further enhance your
understanding of what it will take to win an award. We have included
suggestions on what we find desirable and what we find undesirable
within a site.
Desirable Elements
- User friendly navigation,
refers to the ease of which to find everything your site has to
offer. You may have the best content on the Internet, however,
if we can't locate it all your wonderful efforts are lost.
Establish one method of navigation and use that method through
the site. It is preferable to keep the tool in the same place on
every page. The viewer should be able to smoothly navigate from
section to section and from page to page, without missing
anything you have to offer.
- Be sure to apply the
target="_blank" on external links. These links must open a new
window.
- Opening an internal link in a
new window should have an obvious reason. To clarify this point
further, it has become increasingly popular to use new window
presentation with displays of thumbnail photos and other types
of displays. It is encouraged to include a "close window"
command when using this technique.
Undesirable Elements
- Do not scatter your
navigational tool at different places on your page design.
- Do not have dead-end pages
that force the viewer to use their own "back browser button".
- Do not rely solely on Java
applet for navigational tool. It is always good to keep in mind
that not all viewers have Java-enabled. If this is the case,
your whole site is unreachable to that visitor.
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