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Why you need a java navigation solution
Space-efficiency
As the aesthetics of the web become more intensely competitive and professional,
every pixel of space on your website rises in value: information value
to your site visitor, commercial value to your advertisers, value to you
in keeping your visitor there. Yet with rising complexity of websites,
more and more of that precious space has to be devoted to managing rather
than presenting information. Space disappears into links and menus instead
of information content. To keep your website interesting, inspiring and
attractive, you need to compact your navigation into a limited and
yet effective area. Java navigation does this. We believe in powerful, efficient, compact
navigation systems which complement your site content rather than competing
with it or obscuring it.
User-friendliness
The cardinal rule of good navigation is that the distance between
(A) any site visitor and
(B) any point on your website where they might want to go
must be the smallest possible number of clicks.
The navigation concept must, in addition, be combined with
clarity and intuitiveness. If you have more than about 10 pages on
your website, almost the only way you can achieve these goals
is through a fast-operating, interactive system of pop-up or sliding menus
presenting some kind of hierarchical website overview at the
wave or click of a mouse. Java is the way to do this.
Keeping the site visitor on your website
A good navigation system is the key to keeping your site visitor
on your website - and far more so than you may now imagine. A
well-structured interactive menu in a narrow side-frame which
presents an immediate overview of your website can ensure that
the site visitor visits ten times as many pages (or more) as they would
otherwise do. A good menu invites exploration. If you are dependent
on advertising revenue for your website finances, you cannot ignore the additional page
impressions generated through keeping people on your website in this way.
Save time and money on site development and maintenance
Both initial development and long-term maintenance of a website
are easier with our java systems. Instead of freshly programming
a navigation area for each page, you just have one overall
navigation system. The external index file concept gives you a
single place where you can easily add, move or delete pages as
you develop and as your website develops. You can even totally
change the concept of how your pages interrelate by just editing
the index file - much faster than updating every single HTML page,
or agonising over whether your ASP actually dynamically updated
the structure properly or not.
Simplicity
Java is ideal for navigation. Other languages and techniques
(javascript, DHTML, etc) require you, as the designer, to get
heavily involved in coding and programming. Java is efficient
and ready-made. We do the hard stuff, wrap it up in tightly
and safely in a single file, and you just slot it in.
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