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Navigation Mechanism In Web Design

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.4.2 Navigation Mechanism
Customers accessing commercial websites could find navigation easy or difficult depending on the structure of the web page and the positioning of the navigation buttons. This raises an important question, what are the elements that affect the navigation? These elements could bring the feeling of satisfaction or even lost and disorientation to the customers (Mari Carmen, Uti and Herre 2012). He went further to outline some of these elements that affect navigation as the organisation of the layout; Navigation path complexity and even more, but these two are relevant to this report.
It is often good to keep the layout consistent and very simple with the entire navigation buttons clearly shown, example the navigation menu at the top or side of the page. More so, the navigation path should be very simple and not complex. Therefore, for a good usability experience, an effective navigation mechanism should be adopted.
2.4.3 Colour Scheme
Most often the decision for the choice of a colour for a web design is quite difficult for web developers, this is because colour is subjective. It is based on an individual’s perception, hence what a web developer thinks would be a good colour for a website could turn out to be horrible for the individual users (customer in this case). Bearing this in mind, it is always good to be meticulous in choosing a colour that is based on the specific targeted market we want to attract (Sik-Lányi 2012).
Furthermore, before

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