Getting Started – Creating and Editing Your Site Header

While there are many ways to begin building a website, creating your site navigation is often the most accessible entry point. It's the first think your users will see when they arrive at your site and acts as a map for their experience. Using the content outline that you created in Chapter 2, Preparing to Build Your Site – Making an Outline and Gathering Your Assets, it’s time to build your site header and set up your navigation.

In this chapter, you will do the following:

• Learn what a site header is and understand how it works
• Access your site editor
• Add a logo and site title
• Create site navigation using the pages menu
• Style and design your navigation
• Develop an understanding of the impact of navigation choices on SEO
• See examples of five different site headers for inspiration

By the time you’ve completed this chapter, you will have built your header...