Navigation: Clear Directions Bring You to Your Intended Destination

When it comes to moving around in a website, the ease of navigation tops the list.

There must be clear, obvious and consistent navigation bars.

Breadcrumb trails, which indicate the path of webpages viewed, are desired inclusions in larger websites.

If graphics have been used to provide navigation, an alternate text description should be configured for each image.

Dynamic navigation, like displaying a dropdown menu when the mouse cursor moves over an item, helps to offer choices without overwhelming visitors.

A site map comes in handy to provide an outline of the organisation of the website to visitors who sometimes lose their way on larger websites.

Finally, if all things fail, there is a site search feature to help visitors to find the information that they need.

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All the reviewed websites have clear, obvious and consistent navigation bars that display dropdown menus dynamically for some of their options.

Text, instead of graphics, is used in their navigation bars.

At the time of review, ease of navigation on the website of Challenger is found wanting. Comparing to the other reviewed sites, it does not have a site search feature and it does not even have a site map. The website lacks breadcrumb navigation too. The omission of various navigation tools may be due to the relatively smaller size of its website.

The website of Best Denki is the other one, which does not have breadcrumb navigation as well.