Product name: Navigation

Product reference number

140

Marketing Classification

Navigation

CCMS Main Classification

Publications

CCMS Sub Classification

Website

General introduction

User-friendly and intuitive navigation structure is the essential part of the well-featured website. Without some kind of the navigation, the website can lose its organisation, clarity and the access to the rest of the site can be significantly hampered. Any website larger than one page requires such a component.
The ContentForces Navigation component helps your website visitors in finding information easily and it simply presents pre-defined information. Your website visitor can quickly look at the Navigation, and at once will know what is on offer, what definitely want to see and explore a little bit.

Key benefits

  • Prevents your website visitor from getting lost. The Navigation is like a road map of your website and your website visitor can move around the whole website easily.
  • Ensures your website visitor that from each subpages can get to another by clicking on the appropriate link or button.
  • The simple and intuitive navigation helps website visitors in finding the information they are looking for.
  • Creating search engine friendly navigation is crucial in the website success.
  • Increases customers' satisfaction so they want to return again.

Website visitor perspective

  • The website visitor enters your website and glances at its content and the Navigation structure.
  • The website visitor wants to read something. Thus, can click on the navigation button or link on the top (optionally, on the left) of the page and is redirected to the appropriate subpage.
  • After reviewing the subpage, your website visitor can switch to another subpage by clicking once again on the navigation button or link.
  • The website visitor will not get frustrated during browsing thought your website because he may quickly familiarize himself with the structure of the navigation what significantly increases the probability of his returning to your website.

Website manager perspective

  • At the beginning of the implementation process, the website manager can make some suggestion about the structure and design of the navigation.
  • The website manager can choose appropriate Navigation from the wide range of variants.
  • Also, the website manager can expand or minimize the navigation structure.

Features

  • 1 Level Navigation can be displayed as: I. the horizontal row of navigation items in the top section of a page, II. the vertical row of navigation items in the left section of a page , III. the vertical row of navigation items in the right section of a page.
  • 2 Level Navigation can have: I. first top level and second left level, II. first top level and second right level, III. only the dropdown.
  • 3 Level Navigation can be visible as: I. first top level and remaining left levels, II. first top level and the rest right levels, III. first top level and two dropdown levels, IV. first top level, the second dropline level and the third dropdown level.

Related components

  • Automatic sitemap
  • Breadcrumbs

Other requirements

  • It is possible to have navigation items as text only (friendly for search engines).
  • Background of navigation items can be defined as a color and additionally as an image. It is also possible to add small graphical elements (arrows, bullets, etc.) to the left (or right of each item – name of the navigation item).
  • Width of the entire bar of first level navigation items is limited to max. 800px.
  • Name of each navigation item should consist of one or two words (recommended maximum is approximately 20 characters).
  • Each name of a navigation item will be displayed in one line. So it is not possible to have navigation item with their names (made out of multiple words) divided into multiple lines of text underneath each other.
  • In order to use the Navigation component integrated with a website an Internet connection is required.

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