Now that you’ve got a site map all laid out for you, creating your site and organizing pages is a simple task. Your map will tell you how to design your navigation bars by knowing the primary navigational links to other pages. It will also tell you how to piece your pages together–which will be discussed towards the end of this chapter.
If you look at your pages that stem from your home page, they will designate the names of your hyperlinks (or graphic hyperlinks) that are normally placed in your navigation bar. For every one of these pages, it’s recommended that you provide a small string of text that refers back to the home page. Although this is not entirely necessary for navigation purposes (they can always hit the back arrow in the browser’s taskbar) some Web surfers find it more convenient to use in-page navigational features. And if you support this particular group of people’s likes, it will add points to the overall value of your site, encouraging them to return to it later on.
To refer back to the home page, many Web developers commonly link back by placing the words “Home Page” in brackets, placing a graphical depiction of a small house or a back arrow, or through a hyperlink saying “Click here to return home.”