THE NAVIGATION TOOLS

Navigation tools are tool that assist a well organized and arranged website, leaving the visitors to gain easy access to one or two wep pages or even more. 

Here are some of the Navigation tools used by many websites, they are:

* Navigation Bar

* Search

* Text link

* Bread Crumbs

* Pop- up menus

* Site maps

>Navigation Bar:

             Many websites have a bar of links to the main areas of the website located at the top of every webpage. The navigation bar also includes: links to primary pages like Home,  Shop, About, Contact Us, and product and service feature pages. One current trend in web design is for the navigation bar to remain at the top of the webpage even as a visitor scrolls down to view content further down the page, ensuring the visitor always has easy access to the main navigation links. 

>Pop-up Menus: 

            Many websites cannot be adequately navigated by a single layer of menus. Here, secondary menus remain hidden until a visitor performs an action, such as allowing the mouse pointer to hover over an element in the primary menu, or selecting an element in the primary menu  on a mobile device. Once this happens, the secondary menu, sometimes called a drop-down, pop-up, or flyout menu, will appear and provide additional options.

>Breadcrumbs:

              On some websites, you may see a series of words in a row that show the hierarchy of pages that were used to reach the page you are currently on. This heirarchy is called the page breadcrumbs. In the case of this page, the breadcrumbs look like this: Learn the Net > The Interactive Glossary > Navigation Tools.

>Text Links:

            As you read content on a webpage you will sometimes see embedded links. These links are hyperlinked text used to recommend additional resources that might be useful, or to provide a link to the source materials used to develop the content.

>Sitemap: 

          A sitemap is a heirarchical list of all of the web pages on a website. Some sitemaps are designed purely for use by search engine spiders and are not very easy for a human visitor to make sense of, while others are designed to be usable by both spiders and website visitors.