A problem many sites face is that they serve up a huge volumes of content. Users encounter big chunks of information that could easily be segmented into separate sites, yet the web designers and developers packed them into a single site. As a result, helping people navigate such diverse sets of content is incredibly important. This site of the day, for the WordPress theme developer Inspect Element, totally nails the navigating-mountains-of-content challenge. Notice the prominent and easy-to-use primary navigation on the site. Navigating to the key sections of the site even takes precedence over the firm’s logo. I genuinely appreciate the clarity here. Use this as a model when you’re designing a site with large and disparate buckets of content.
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