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Step 3: Organizing Your Site

When I am organizing a web site, the first thing that I do is make a visual map. A map of a web site might look something like this:

An easy way to establish this initial order is to use sticky notes and move them around until the most reasonable relationships can be seen. The green sticky notes indicate pages and the lines indicate logical links between them.

Activity:

Write a description of each page you would like to include in your web on sticky notes. Use one note for each page, then stick them onto a board in the arrangement that seems logical to you.

Think about what pages should be linked from what other pages. Do your pages fall into 2 or 3 categories? Perhaps the home page should link to the main page for these categories with links to the specific pages from there. Look at how other sites are arranged. Don't hesitate to copy the structure of a site that you feel is logical and easy to move around in. If you work out a logical structure for your site, moving about in it will be simpler for the people visiting it.

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