August 2007
Beginner
416 pages
12h 16m
English
Content preview from Designing Web NavigationBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
QUESTIONS
Think up analogies for three of the discussed navigation mechanisms. For instance, step navigation is like turning pages in a book. What does a location breadcrumb trail resemble? A directory? A dynamic menu?
Analyze the various navigation mechanisms on a few pages on Amazon.com (or Amazon in your country), including a search results page. Identify all the different kinds of navigation mechanisms you find.
How is each used? For what types of content is each used?
What are potential problems of each?
What works well? What doesn't? What don't they use that they could possibly benefit from?
List at the advantages and disadvantages of the three most prevalent navigation mechanisms on Amazon.
Compare results paging for three popular search engines. First, do a search for a common term that produces a large results set, such as "design." Then go to the twentieth page on each.
How does page numbering on the twentieth page differ?
What are the rules for the display of page numbers?
What is good and what is bad about each?
Specify the display rules for one of the paging mechanisms in words or in a flowchart using "if" statements.
Other than for user-created tags, what other types of navigation could be displayed as a tag cloud? List three other ways links in a tag cloud could be ranked, other than by popularity. How might a tag cloud be used for navigation on a news site, for instance? Or on a shopping site?
Redesign the home page of a site you are working on or that you visit frequently with ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.