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Guidelines for Designing Web Navigation.

INTRODUCTION

Web users display a succession of Web pages as they try to meet their information needs. We usually refer to this activity as navigation. Supporting navigation must be an important priority for designers, for few Web sites will succeed unless users can efficiently find the content they are interested in. This article provides guidelines for designing the navigation within a Web site.

The Web has precursors in earlier hypertext systems dating back to the 1960s and, in speculative writing, back to the 1940s with Vannevar Bush's article "As we may think." Bush anticipated what we today call "information overload" and proposed sophisticated technologies to ...

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