Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Make an outline and mindmap of your website

Now that you have all your objectives, features, considerations, and analysis, it is time to organize it.

Define possible organizational structures that could be used on your website. What kind of menu would be appropiate for the information and categories you'll provide?

How many menus & where?


How many menus deep should your site's menu go?

A technological information site could have several levels of information in many categories however a site for children's games should not.  In some cases a long list might be more appropriate than a menu.

How many side bars will you have?  Will the menu be in a sidebar or horizontal above the content?

You could even have more than one menu.

For example:  The education web site could have a teachers' section and a student section.

It could have a horizontal menu to select if you are a teacher or student and submenus for the level or subject being taught. The submenu might become a separate menu in a sidebar.

Perhaps there will be a separate menu to handle logins and profile information.

Once all of your must-have features are included in the design and you are happy, you can finally start installing your CMS and code HTML.

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