Servage Magazine

We web designers have to understand the business or needs of the clients at firsthand and plan website layout accordingly. During layout preparation, first of all, we understand the content structure and think of content hierarchy. In due course, we put labels on the content. With content labeling, we try to explain our navigation choices indirectly. Thus, content structure and its labeling shape the content architecture for the web designers as well as web development teams by-and-large. In simple words, content of the web page provides contextual information and structuring them in a logical manner makes a solid information architecture. Therefore, when we are labeling content and its ...

In the beginning stage of web designing vertical menu was a trend and freely used in all circumstances. There were one or two level deep navigation systems prevailing in the market. Therefore, vertical navigation was serving the purposes. However, vertical menu is not obsolete and very few web designers are going to use vertical menu in their modern style website designing. Therefore, we will discuss that when it should and shouldn’t be used in present scenario. Now we should not have any misunderstanding for the term vertical menu because it clearly represents the top-level primary navigation system, not sidebars with secondary links or call-to-action areas. Before a decade, the needs of clients ...