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samples or art. Will your home page include a link to your survey, or should that link appear 

on your contact page? Try to come up with a blueprint of your page structure. 

home 

contact us 

about us 

catalog 

news 

directions 

product 1 

product 2 

The outline and ideas you develop will help guide you as you start creating pages and 

building your site. If you get stuck or just want some suggestions, go online! Review some 

Yahoo! Web Hosting success stories at 

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/featuredsites.php

, or examine some 

SiteBuilder templates at 

http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/templates/

. Take a look at web 

sites that you admire or that address topics similar to yours and make a note of their 

content and organization. What kinds of information do they include? Are they easy to use? 

Does their organization make sense to you? Write down your ideas   they ll come in handy 

as you get started.  

Site Navigation 

After you ve outlined your site, you ll have a better idea of which pages are most important 

  which in turn will help determine your site navigation.  

A navigation bar is an element on a web page, often graphical, that contains links to other 

pages in the web site. Many sites display a single, consistent navigation bar on each page 

(usually across the left side or top of the page) to provide site visitors with a convenient, 

organized way to browse the important pages or areas of the site. The navigation bar at the 

top of every page in Web Hosting Help, for example, includes links to Small Business Home 

and Yahoo!  

To create your navigation buttons automatically, use Yahoo! SiteWizards or SiteBuilder s 

navigation bar tool, which provides a wide variety of customizable button styles and will 

easily generate all the navigation links you need.  

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