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- [Instructor] In this course, we're going to be building a content management system, or CMS. Our CMS will be responsible for providing us with information about our customers, recent orders, and messages. But before we can get any of that going, we need to set up a way for our user to navigate between pages. To do this, we're going to create a navigation drawer. Navigation drawers work best when your app requires switching between unrelated destinations. For example, our app will have three modules, customers, orders, and messages. Here are some of the dos and don'ts when it comes to working with navigation drawers. Do make the placement noticeable and obvious. Keep the link names concise, and truncate them if they're too long. Organize your destinations in order of importance or place the most visited pages on top. Use icons when possible to convey meaning. Now, here are some of the don'ts. Don't mix navigation drawers with other site navigation metaphors such as footer navs…

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