Website Design

Developing Site Architecture
For designing effective website architecture, below are minimum things to be considered.

Web Pages Classification
Since website consists of web pages, it is important that it needs to organize helping visitors to locate and navigate. If there are few pages, then it’s likely to become the part of main navigation menu with all pages residing at root directory. But if number of web pages is more, then it is advisable to organize them under categories/subcategories or sections (as folders under root directory) and accordingly the site navigation can be designed. But make sure that you don’t have a deep directory structure. Because this will make the URL length big and search engines may find difficult to crawl.

Planning a Navigation Menu
Navigation defines the framework of your web pages and helping visitors to drive to other web pages after landing to home page. Please make sure that the most inner page should not be more than 3 clicks away. Make proper usage of keywords in navigation menu item, wherever applicable.

URL and File System Structuring
Try to make use of proper keywords while naming a web page. See that it is relevant to that of web page content. Use hyphen instead of spaces, underscore or any other character, if your web page name contains more than one keyword (should not be more than 3 keywords). Keep CSS, JS, images etc in different folders (under root folder).

See that length of URL doesn’t become too long, as site grows. This is important. So keep that in mind while designing, depending upon your website growth. (Next)

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