Latest Website Navigation Trends for Year 2017

Web navigation is a way to process a navigating network of information resources in WWW (World Wide Web) which is arranged in the form of hypertext & hypermedia. The user interface that is responsible for such actions is considered as web browser. It is essential section for the success of your website visitors’ experience to your website. The navigation system means, it is a way to offer road map to navigate different areas, routes, and information included within the regarding website. Website navigation/. There are 3 types of website navigations which are hierarchical, global & local.

But over the past few years offshore web development services and its services have seen lot of growth and trends in the world of web design. Some of the latest trends are listed here, have a look:

 


Fixed scrolling navbars

Navigation is established to help the user to reach from a point to another on the website. And by placing the fixed scrolling navbars menu, it enables the visitor to navigate the site from any area on the page. The Jquery plugins and CSS have come along with, to make it more convenient.\

 

Mega Menus

With the increasing trends of magazine style blogs the mega menu has become popular. The appearance of mega menus differs from general drop downs because these mega menus flow in wider area instead of just coming down vertically. It usually contains multiple columns of content and you can take a look of the site in a single drop down. Such menus are useful to content and link related sites where you can use it to display large contents.

 

Universal navigation

Companies work with multiple brands and sites to make universal presence but if these brands are not inter-related than it doesn’t make sense to connect. But, sometimes it is required to involve universal navigation across the overall website. It is used to create attention to another items developed & maintained by the company.

 

Vertical siding navigation

Generally vertical siding navigation is spotted on portfolios and creative agencies that force the limitations of traditional websites but very few sites follow the vertical navigation trends.

 

Globally hidden menus

The trend of hiding vertical bar from websites have been noticed where blogs and big sites keep the navigation hidden from view at times. It can be helpful for B2B digital agency or tech blog.

 

Except these menus Responsive sub nav menu, table of contents etc. are one of the latest trends and others are coming to emerge and flourish.

 

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