Main site navigation
On website home pages this is the listed link groups on the main body of the page. Navigation links are not underlined. (Links within a block of text are underlined).
Example - College of Arts
On pages within a website the main navigation is the left menu. The links are identical to the main navigation on the home page.
This is the primary navigation for a website and provides access to all resources within the site. It is composed of 2-3 link groups each of which has a link group heading.
Link group heading colours
These are built into your websites template. Colleges, academic departments and research centres use their corresponding college colour. Service units use black.
Left hand navigation block for Academic Site |
Left hand navigation block for Service Site |
Checkpoints
Link group headings in order are:
Academic site:
- Study, For, About
Service Centres and other sites:
- Service Name, For, About
- 'For' is optional.
- 'Service Name' relates to the main actions the primary audience use the site for. Eg for the Web Team website 'Services and Resources' is appropriate. For the Accommodation website 'Accommodation Options' is best.
- Talk with the Web Team about the naming of link group headings as they vary in each case.
Points that apply to Academic, Service Centres and other sites:
- No more than 3 link groups except where approved by the Web Team Leader.
- Link group headings are Heading 3 and are not linked.
- All links are plain text and bulleted.
- All link titles conform to the style guidelines: make link titles meaningful to readers and formatting links
- Contains only links and link group headings (e.g. no images).
- Links only to web pages within the site (e.g. no linking to other web sites or to documents).