HTML and XHTML Step by Step

Key Points

• A navigation bar is a list of hyperlinks to the major pages on your site. It need not include every page. The optimal number of links is between 4 and 7.

• Plan your site’s organization before you create the navigation bar. Draw a diagram of all the pages and their connections to one another, and choose a file name for each page.

• Navigation bars are traditionally placed at the top or left side of a page. Placing a bar to the side requires the use of layout techniques that we discuss later in this book.

• Many Web designers place a text version of their navigation bar at the bottom of each page for user convenience.

• A text-based navigation bar is simply a series of hyperlinks.

• A graphical navigation bar uses small graphics for the hyperlinks. ...