Pages Navigation

Last time, I talked about blog content organization, and I mentioned the pages bar, briefly.

To recap, I'm making a few pages, you know, those essentials that aren't quite blog content, but still essential or expected. I'm talking About and Contact, Buttons page and Parties and Features page that I decided to present as pages to free up some valuable sidebar real estate. They are nice to have, but can be quite cluttersome, so having them out of the way at the top and bottom as individual pages seemed like a smart move. I'm really hoping they will be easy to locate, especially the button page since it's less common to have them as a page, but not unseen. Well ok, I'm really still on the fence about the buttons page. It wouldn't take that much space in the sidebar section, but at the same time how many people actually use the button? TBC...

Quite a bit more unconventional is seeing a resource page and an archive/sitemap page, but I wanted to create them. The resource page because I want to give credit to the wonderful (mostly) free digital art I use around the blog; we're talking fonts, shapes, tags, doodles, paintbrushes, etc. The Sitemap I'm still a little on the fence about it, I love sitemaps for Wordpress blogs, gives an other way for people to find your content the way they want to find it (archived in chronological order, or by label/category), and includes ALL your content. Every single page.

Those are the 6 pages I'm planning. Sometimes you also see a Home tab with them, but I find that redundant seeing as the header or logo should point to the home page of a blog, or website. I really hope it doesn't confuse people, and I'll see if I need to add it later, but really the more I think of it, the more I think it's just convention for it to do that, so I don't see there being a big problem about this.

Not everyone separates their pages tabs from their content navigation tabs, but the blogs and websites that do do that have really attracted me lately. Actually, a lot of them have the pages bar at almost the very top of the blog page, sometimes above the header/logo, and then the content navigation below it. That's what I decided to do, even if I don't have that many pages, or categorical navigation to showcase.


I'd also like to have simple text links of those pages in the footer section of the blog. Websites do it like that, and I think it's expected to have links to that kind of information at the bottom of a page, too. The footer is often under utilized and neglected, but really when someone gets to the bottom of your blog you don't want that to stop them from continuing finding more stuff to read, so it's really quite logical.

Wait til you see what I have up my sleeve for graphics and coding for these bars, I'm really excited about them!!