Stoney deGeyter has a recent article titled “How to Create Effective Site Navigation that Leads Visitors to Your Most Important Content“. He covers things that will help search engines spider your website along with visitors being able to find information they need quickly.

Stoney says one of the first things he looks at is the site’s main navigation elements, these being the top, side, and footer navigation.

He has some great tips for your website’s navigation.

Just a few of the things he points out are:

• Your top navigation should always display your logo and tagline

• Your logo should always link to your site’s home page

• Primary navigation should be located at the top or side of the page

• Footer is a great place to provide additional links

You can read these tips in more detail (and find out Stoney’s other tips) here.

These all seem so simple, they are very important steps to consider when designing your website.

While on Stoney’s blog, I ran across this questions and answers series of articles that can also help improve the architecture of your site. There are five parts and I encourage you to read through them all to better benefit your site.

Website Architecture Questions Answered:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

No go work on your website architecture! :)