Case Studies Number Five--msn.com:Navigation

There are two navigation systems on the home page and the group makes sense to me. Although the secondary navigation system has a lot of labels, each of them is very easy to understand.

A hierarchy exists among the navigation systems. The primary navigation looks more prominent than the secondary because its position on the page. I think the site was designed in this way since the primary navigation system contains the most important information that users need.

When I visit further levels of the site, primary and secondary navigation systems disappear, but other navigation appear. I can tell they are navigation because it has labels of different sections and its design / position also tells me that they are the new navigation systems.

When I click on one of the links in the navigation systems, the look of the link changes. I think it indicates to users that they are currently visiting this specific section (location indicator: tells where users are in the site).

I am not always know where I am since the look of different levels changes. However, in some case, the headlines on the page and links on the navigation systems tell me about my location in the site if I look it really carefully.

Since I use the Internet everyday and visit enough websites, I know how to get back to the home page on the msn.com. Simply click the MSN logo will bring me back to the index page.
Home page navigationn
Navigation on other pages