Most of the children's websites nowadays have gradually transformed from data and text content to story and image focus, but menu list is still the principal guideline for the interface design. However, in view of different psychological characteristics between adults and children, can we break the structural criteria for children to freely explore the website? The present study created a children's art learning website to examine the question. Two different simulated navigation ways:

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... Exploration and Menu Navigation were designed. The participants were enrolled from public elementary school in northern Taiwan. Their ages ranged from 10 to 13 years. A series of expert interview, participant observation and experimental questionnaire were adopted for the comparison of the findings, and qualitative and quantitative data analyses were performed. Both navigation ways are enjoyable, but the findings showed a mixed situation. The results of expert interview and questionnaire showed that the design of Menu Navigation may be superior to that of Contextual Exploration in the children's art learning website. However, we were not sure to this point according to the views of experts of children's education and the result of participant observation. Further studies are needed to corroborate these findings.