Menus: Website navigation to direct your visitors

Sometimes known as “website tabs”, navigation menus help direct visitors around your website. Most themes can display more than one menu on the site, so it’s useful to think of menus in terms of primary and secondary navigation.

The primary navigation is a menu that appears prominently in the header of your website, and should contain links to your high value, must-see pages like Home, Services and Contact.

The secondary navigation could contain links to your legal information (privacy policy, disclaimer, etc) and/or your social media profiles.

An important point to note is that the menus don’t have to reflect the arrangement of your website pages. In fact, you don’t have to include all your website pages in your menus at all. Just arrange them in the way that makes the most sense.

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