Your choice of navigational tools will depend on the size and complexity of the site on which your page appears and the navigational tools that the site designers have made available to you. To help readers navigate a Web site, developers typically create menus that appear on each page, and they often provide page headers, page footers, site maps, tables of contents, and search tools. As you design your Web page, you can include these tools on your page or, in the case of tables of contents, link to them.

As you consider how to help readers move around your page, decide whether you should provide a page menu. Page menus serve as a table of contents for a Web page and are often used on longer Web pages. In addition, you should think carefully about how you will place and design links to related pages. In most cases, links made in the text of a Web page are signaled to readers through the use of underlines and color. Links within the text can also be identified by the use of small icons. When links are made with images or the opening frame of a video clip, writers often provide a caption or a flag that appears when a mouse is hovered over the image or clip. Ideally, the flag will provide information that will help readers decide whether they want to follow the link.