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In this installment of web site design tips, I want to talk about what may very well be the most important part of web site design, navigation. Without

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

an easily navigated site, your visitors can get easily lost and disoriented, ultimately leading to them leaving your site in frustration without getti

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ng the information that they need and without YOU making the sales that you want. This article will give you some basic tips for creating the navigatio

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

n of your site. Hopefully, after reading this, you'll have a solid game plan in place for creating the navigation of your site.

The first thing about

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

avigation that is critical to understand is that your visitors have to be able to find it. So many site developers create navigation bars that so blend

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

in with the rest of the site that visitors have absolutely no idea where it is. After a few minutes, if they even stay that long, they leave the site

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

in disgust because they can't find the page that they're looking for. So it is important to make your navigation bar stand out on the page. Don't make

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

eople hunt for it.

The next thing about your navigation bar is that you want things to flow in an orderly fashion. Web surfers are used to finding cer

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

tain options in certain places. For example, the home page link of your site should be the first link on your navigation bar because that's where peopl

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

e are used to seeing it. Conversely, the contact us link should be the last one on the navigation bar, again because that's where most people expect to

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

find it. By having your links thrown together in no particular order, this makes it difficult for what I call "seasoned surfers" to find things.

The n

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ext thing you want to do is make sure that all your navigation links are working. The last thing you want is for a visitor to click on your "products"

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

page and be greeted by a 404 error. It is critical that you test every link on every page to make sure that it is functional. There are free tools onli

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ne that you can use to do this. The whole procedure will take a matter of seconds. This is critical especially if you have a site with a large number o

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

pages.

Finally, you want to include navigation to other pages of your site, internally within the text of your pages. For example, if you have a page

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

on golf clubs and there is a mention on that page about the importance of choosing the right kind of "wood" and you have a whole page dedicated to not

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

hing but "woods", make sure you have that word "wood" linking to the page on woods. This will not only give visitors additional ways to get from one pa

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

e to another but also improve your search engine rankings.

Web surfers like to be able to easily get around a web site. We live in a fast paced world

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

and people don't have the time to go around looking for links to things. If they don't find them, they're gone. So take the time to do the things I've

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

mentioned in this article.

Your visitors may not thank you for it, but they're certainly stick around a lot longer.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenhei

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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