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Fire: Adding Multimedia

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Below are examples of navigation schemes of some useful sites. Consider the differences between the choices these designers made and then think about how you want your readers to navigate your site.

Water: Navigating Streams of Information

Design

This is the navigation bar from Efuse.com, a user-friendly website with instructions for building websites for personal and business use. This example is a horizontal navigation bar using tabs instead of buttons. This kind of navigation is usually created by creating one large image, usually in Photoshop or the like, and then creating hotlinked areas in the image.

One of the most common navigation tools is a simple list of topics that link to the pages containing the information your looking for. Similar to the navigation of this page, Dreamlink (where this example comes from) uses this static list as a navigation tool. Visit this site for helpful tutorials on web site building presented in easy to understand language.
This navigation bar from An Atlas of Cyberspace combines a graphic and text to create a more interesting look.