Framesets & Website Linking Structures

If you find that your webmaster or site maintenance person has you in a quandary as to what to do about your website navigation, perhaps you would do well to contact WebshoppeSolutions with regard to finding a solution to your website navigational needs.

Navigational pitfalls can include hyperlinks that are not marked clearly, new pages open in new windows at every click of the mouse, or the links are written into images or dhtml scripting so that when the page itself loads, one has to wait for the linked scripting or images to load before any navigation can occur at all.

The very best way to link in to your internal website pages would be to use text. Text is straight forward and usually leaves no question as to the destination once you click on your mouse to go there. Images, by way of a very clearly marked button, can also be used in website navigation.

Many people, businesses, and organizations make pretty good use of the button image for website navigation. For all of the website navigation methods that are out there online, frames, or framesets are the worst. Your visitorship may, or may not have trouble navigating your website, but search engine robots cannot read frames. This could prove to be a bit of a problem for those who would wish to be noticed on the internet. With framesets, the page title will always remain the same, regardless of how much optimization you might do with regard to the product or service you are promoting.

Internet website navigation starts on the very first page. Most, or even all, professionally designed websites are given a navigation structure before the first page is even completed. This is how important website navigation is.

If you have a smaller website, 1 to 15 pages, I'll recommend that you avoid using the time and resources to put on a complicated website navigation solution. Text links should be quite enough to do the job.

If your website is larger, 30 to 100 pages, I will suggest a drop down menu system accompanied with a sitemap.

If you have anything larger than 100 pages, I would recommend, and highly, a dynamic solution (PHP, or ASP, or JSP, or CFM). Most larger websites, i.e., Walmart, Amazon, Walden Books, all run on a dynamic server side platform, and use scripted drop down menus and sitemaps heavily. Larger websites also provide search utilities for their visitorship in conjunction with the dynamic website navigation.

The cost for me to do an extensive website navigation project can vary depending on how large or in depth the website solution is that's being edited. Existing websites that require a website navigation rewrite are generally less expensive than anything new being developed from scratch, however.