Welcome. Here you will learn how to design an effective navigational systems for a web site. Lets take a second to understand the Web. The World Wide Web, by its very nature, encourages jumping from one site, from one page, from one thought, to another. Reading a book is in essence a linear process. You start at the beginning and read to the end. Some books, and all newspapers and magazines are designed to be dipped into at will. You don't have to read the whole thing, but the bits that you do read, are read in a linear fashion. With the advent of interactive hypertext, you can be reading a line of text on one page, and with the click of a button, be transferred to a cross referenced line of text on a site on the other side of the world. Whilst this flexibility is admirable, it has the unfortunate side effect of breaking continuity of style and train of thought. At best it is distracting, at worst, it leaves the reader lost and confused. The web page designer has to consider not only what is ON his page but what is OFF it as well. If the reader jumps to a "stronger" page that is more powerful in visual terms, in content or structure, he may never come back. Even with the best possible design of any single page, your site will fail to attract visitors if not equipped with a neat, consistent, and intuitive navigational interface