{"id":509,"date":"2008-05-09T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordwebdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/navigation-where-do-you-put-it\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:56:04","slug":"navigation-where-do-you-put-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/05\/09\/navigation-where-do-you-put-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigation Where Do You Put It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically navigation belongs on the left of your web page. Years and websites have trained readers to look for navigation there. If you differ from this model, you&#8217;d better have a good reason as you do not want to needlessly confuse readers or have your site be difficult to navigate. One of the top reasons for a new website design is to improve navigation.<\/p>\n<p>What we typically will do is to provide major navigation links on the left and detail links at the top with drop downs. 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