Website Navigation and Menus

No matter how involved the websites we develop for our clients, the foundation is always the navigation (or site map) and menu system (or, more generally, graphical user interfaces (GUIs)).

Saving Time and Effort with Joomla

Joomla makes it easy to organize website navigation and menus.

We guide clients in organizing content into sections and categories so that it flows naturally into website navigation.

Joomla inherently has a handy menu management system. Frequently clients ask us to customize the look-and-feel of the menus.

The SEO Connection

Today, navigation has become inseparable from search engine optimization (SEO). Navigation should be easily readable by search engines, in a shallow hierarchy and with extreme care devoted to putting the most relevant content hear the "top" of the site.

Menus: Less is More

Menu systems have become such a ubiquitous part of everyone's computing and online experience that people sometimes take them for granted. We believe that menus should be approached from the standpoint of usability -- which often means that the best menu is the least complicated one!

For more information . . .

For an excellent introduction to the way in which Joomla's system of sections and categories helps you organize website navigation, see dezinedepot.

Menus are a bit more tricky. See, for instance, the online Chapter on menus from Building Websites with Joomla 1.5.