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Go to any website and you’re guaranteed to find one thing: a navigation menu. The navigation menu is possibly a website’s single most important component; it allows visitors to, well, navigate your website.

With anything you should start with a plan. We use a Navigation Tree Diagram to easily layout our navigation. It helps you decide what pages go together, which pages are top level, sub-level and/or secondary. While there are no rules for laying out your navigation, I use one rule of thumb. Visitors should be able to get where they want in no more than 2 clicks.

Below is an example of a site navigation tree. Your main page to your website is where “Home Page” is written on the top box. In the boxes below write the pages that your website will contain. Each box shows a single page from your website. If this is a redesign of a website, you can place the pages you currently have on your existing website, then cross out the pages that you would like removed and add any additional pages.

To properly layout your navigation we designed a blank Navigation Tree Diagram you can download. Enjoy!

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