Saturday, January 27, 2007

Navigation Design with Browser

When design a navigation system for web application, we must concern the navigation system is supported by browser.

  • Link: Link is the chunk of text which is connect 2 document together with serveral appearance characters:
    • Underline.
    • Mouse over the text with the finger and link destination at Status Bar.
      • Mouse over
        Mouse Over
      • Link destination
        Link Destination
  • Link color is not clicked yet blue(Invisited) and clicked link color is violet(Visited). This feature help web user recognize which is visited and which is not visited.
    Link color change
  • Go to the different web page or web site we can use the Location Bar.
    Location Bars
  • Add current page address into BookMark (for FireFox) or Favorites (for IE) for later visit.
    BookMark
  • "Back " and "Forward
    Forward Buttonare the way moving round a web page on the window.
  • When move around more pages on the window use the down arrow button beside Back or Forward button Back or Forward.

    That button when click a list pop-up the visited page of current window (Back > current page > Forward). Back - current page - Forward

  • Click the down arrow button of Location Bar and select the entered address.Location bar list
  • Review visited page of previous session, web user use the History of browser.History list
  • With FireFox, review the page have viewed in current session web user can select it from Go menu.Session List