i’ve been going through all the links for my art site and one thing i keep coming across is poor navigation. i can’t figured out what i’m supposed to click or the place where i’m supposed to click is for ie only. why is it oh-so-clever to put little numbers or little boxes or non-related words as a source of navigation? i’ve never understood that. as i’m trying to make my own sites more standards compliant the problems with some sites glare at me. if i can’t figure out the navigation but the art is brilliant i probably will move on to someone less brilliant who has links i can click on.
it’s not cute to put tiny little navigation. save the art for the actual artwork. layouts can be pretty but i need big buttons or nice, sane links somewhere. somehow it seems the writing or text driven sites i come across take into account that not everyone can figure out you need to click the three pixel stars scattered across the portrait or or the words in whatever quote is in the layout image.
it’s not the case for all art sites. it’s usually the ones with trendy fandom based art or photomanipulations or collages.
art sites. please, just real navigation. words that actually say what that section of the site is. or at least you can move over the image and a title will pop up spelling out where that particular dot leads to. just take the extra time to allow casual visitors who are not your friends to browse the site without giving up in frustration. if i had not been looking for links to resources i would have given up sooner and, if i were a newbie, i would have clicked out immediately. think about it.
