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"Site is hard to navigate. Making the site hard to navigate is a sure way to drive away viewers. Unlabeled hyperlinks. Pages with a way in, but no clear way out. Frames that nest (one set of frames inside another) with no way to break out of the nested set. Multiple windows that pop open and get in the way. And so on. Spend some time getting the navigation right - if viewers get lost on your site, they might just leave and never return." (1)
"Make your navigation controls consistent. Use navigational controls that are consistent from one page to another. It can be confusing to viewers to see different navigational buttons or other graphics on different pages. And always make sure the viewer has a way to exit a page without leaving your site. Making sure that each page has a link back to your home page is one good way to achieve this." (1)
One way to help users keep track of where they are in your web site is to use "breadcrumbs". These are used in this site, at the top of each page (except the Home page). They show you the path back to the Home page, although they don't show you where you are in relation to everything else on the site.
Users should always be able to get back to the Home page easily, no matter where they are in the site. One easy way to accomplish this is to put your Site Logo near the top of every page, and make it a hyperlink to the Home page. That has been done on this site.