How many times have you gone to a website and just looked at the page wondering where in the &^#$&* you needed to click to get to the next page, or any page for that matter. Man the site is beautiful but the navigation is horrible. There are little one pixel by three pixel squares you need to find to click on to get to the next page. And guess what, once your little arrow turns into a hand and you know you found a link where does it go? Argh....

Navigation is the key to any site. While the graphics are incredibly done it does no one any good if they can't see more. Now some people have artsy sites and there is always an exception or two to the rules but there are a ton of these site around. If a visitor can't see where they are going or can't get anywhere to first time they visit your site they probably won't come back. And what a waste that is because the author of the site is really an incredible artist (well if they are that incredible I will probably stick around just so I can see the graphics myself).

But let's think of our target audience once again. Is this supposed to be a business page that clients might see? If so do you think they are going to search around your page trying to find that one link for 10 minutes. I doubt it. Is your target audience graphic hungry people starving for a new piece of eye candy? If so you will survive. The main thing you need to consider is who are your visitors going to be. If anyone other than friends and fellow graphic artists are going to frequent your page think really hard about your navigation scheme. Make it as graphically pleasing as you wish. But make it accessible or everyone loses out...