3 Click Rule

So in advertising we always follow a simple rule of web navigation: If you have to click more than three times to get to it you’re clearly not designing right.
In other words, for the sake of finding information, your navigation bar should be well designed (like how ecollege has multiple subheads under each category). Although our own sites aren’t as big, it is important to keep in mind what the big sites are doing well and incorporate those ideas into our own (on a much smaller scale of course).

Even a simple site can outdo a flashy site if its usability is there. Sites that keep you from getting lost allow for both readability and navigation. Also, I tend to keep the headers on my sites linked to the home page, just for ease of navigation.