A Navigation Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites
A Web site isn't like a house, which must be entered through a door. Visitors can begin exploring your site from any location. They may never even see your home page. If you do not help visitors who enter your site in unexpected ways, their first experience of your site will be one of frustration.
Therefore, support deep links by making every page a starting point for exploring your site.
Here are some methods for doing this.
These are good candidates for a Standard Header and Footer. Placing these elements in the page header gives them the best chance of being seen.
Last updated 17 June 2002
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All contents ©2002 Mark L. Irons