What, no navigation? Read the main column of this page to find out why.

This page is an orphan page. This is an example of what not to do when building your web site. There are no internal (within this website) links on this page. There is no way to get from here to other pages on this site by site navigation links. There is a way, which is explained farther down on this page.

If you are building a website, you do not want to make a page like this. It is amazing how many webmasters do this. If you make orphan pages, and your visitors get to them by clicking navigation links on your other pages, they must use their "back" button to get back to where they came from on your site. Don't make them have to work that hard.

If your visitors arrived at your orphan page via a search engine result (as most of them will), in order to see the rest of your site, they will need to edit the location bar. For example:

If you arrived here from a search engine result, you must do the following in order to view the other pages on this site: Go to the location bar of your browser. It should now display:
http://www.humsites.com/wph/orphan.html
Click on the location bar to highlight the location. Press the "End" key, or repeatedly press the right arrow key until you are at the end of the line. Use the backspace key to erase "orphan.html," so that the location bar now reads:
http://www.humsites.com/wph/
Press the enter key and you will go to the main page of this site, Web Page Help.

Now why would you want your visitors to work so hard to see your content? You don't, so just don't do it (don't make an orphan page - place a link on every page back to where they came from). Ideally, put your entire site navigation on every page, or at lease your main navigation points. Use this website as your example (but don't make an orphan page like this one).

If you arrived here from Web Page Help, simply close this window. Since the page was opened in a new window, you will return to the links and comments page, the only page that links to this one another bad practice - your visitors should be able to reach any page of your site from any other page on your site - no small task if you have a lot of pages. Notice that this page violates the above rule, the link to it from my own website is only on one page.