y (ensuring things ‘e.g., links’ always work)On the above components I will access the National Bank website.When you first enter the homepage for the National Bank you are greeted with a large banner explaining what site you have entered, a list of click able links explaining what is held within, down the bottom of the page it has when the website was created but no sign of updates, all though you hope they do, and it has a tab header frame at the top of every page to take you to there homepage or other pages within their site.This site has its target audience in mind they are Mr and Mrs Joe Bloggs and students. This is apparent through their use of image cycling on their homepage where it cycles through images of couples, singles and students and the tailor made accounts that they offer for them. The even better part is when you click on these images it takes you to the information about that account.Navigation of the site is well layed out and easy to use with the use of rollover change, which highlights the link you have the mouse situated over and gives you subheadings of the pages within that link. Also situated at the bottom of the page is underlined text links which you can use to move amongst the headings of the site and they also change to a different colour once clicked on to let the user know where they have been within the site. Also there is a contents header at the top of every page listing the major headings and the subheadings of the page you are in as well as the page you are currently on.Interface studies have shown that users prefer menus that present a minimum of five to seven links, and that users prefer a few very dense screens of choices over many layers of simplified menus. (Web Style Guide http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/interface/basic_interface2.html) With this statement in mind National Bank have done just that with they’re maximum of seven links within most pages contained in the site...
