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<title>Design Effective Navigation in Ten Steps</title>
<shortdesc>Designing your site&apos;s navigation can be quite a tricky task at first. You need to research the number of categories you&apos;ll account for, where your visitors are most likely to click, the colour schemes that will best satisfy users, and many other aspects. With so many variables, navigation design can seem like a situation in which there&apos;s no right answer. Today, we&apos;ll discuss the task of designing navigation -- and hopefully give you a head start in creating a navigation system that works the best for your users.</shortdesc>
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<p>Designing your site&apos;s navigation can be quite a tricky task at first. You need to research the number of categories you&apos;ll account for, where your visitors are most likely to click, the colour schemes that will best satisfy users, and many other aspects. With so many variables, navigation design can seem like a situation in which there&apos;s no right answer. Today, we&apos;ll discuss the task of designing navigation -- and hopefully give you a head start in creating a navigation system that works the best for your users.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/Web-Design/Usability">All works in 'Design &gt; Web-Design &gt; Usability'</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design">All works in 'Design'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Web-Design">'Web Design'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Usability">'Usability'</a></li>
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 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Design'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Web-Design" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Web Design'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Usability" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Usability'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/publisher/SitePoint" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All 55 works published by SitePoint</linktext></link>
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