{"id":753,"date":"2014-10-22T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santarosawebsite.com\/websitedesign\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-12-18T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:30:54","slug":"how-to-make-your-website-easier-to-use-by-organizing-your-main-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/how-to-make-your-website-easier-to-use-by-organizing-your-main-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make your website easier to use by organizing your main menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very common problem among websites is lack of or bad organization. If the user can\u2019t find what they\u2019re looking for quickly, they would rather go to a different website than take another few seconds to try to find it on yours. It should be immediately obvious how to get where they want to go.<\/p>\n

The first major step that should be taken, is organizing your main menu to be very intuitive, and to not have too many items. Your main menu should have a link back to the \u201cHome\u201d page, and a link to your \u201cContact Us\u201d page at a minimum. It also makes sense to have a direct link to your \u201cAbout Us\u201d page, which could also drop down into a second level menu with items such as your Team page, Galleries, and anything else that\u2019s directly related to your business that isn\u2019t product or service related. The final sections that should be in your main menu will probably be industry specific, such as having a link to your \u201cServices\u201d at a glance page, or have Services drop down into a second level menu to list all of your main services. You might have a \u201cProducts\u201d menu item, that drops down into product categories. Or possibly if you are a restaurant, you would have a direct link to your online \u201cMenu\u201d so customers can see what they can order.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t put too much in your menu. With the combinations available above, you may end up with roughly 5 items in your main menu. You could have a few more added and still be fine, such as having a link to your \u201cBlog\u201d or a \u201cNews\u201d section, or something else that you know would be crucial to your customers that they would want to get to quickly. But don\u2019t have too many items in your top level menu, because that\u2019s when things might start to get out of hand and un-organized.<\/p>\n

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A very common problem among websites is lack of or bad organization. If the user can\u2019t find what they\u2019re looking for quickly, they would rather go to a different website than take another few seconds to try to find it on yours. It should be immediately obvious how to get where they want to go. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[159,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}