Organizing a Website

This section provides information to help you design and structure your website. These pages will help you organize the information on your site and develop a consistent and efficient interface and file and navigation system.

File Organization for Web Sites
Presents conventions for naming and organizing files to create a website that is easy to manage and navigate.

Effective Website Design
Six important considerations for designing an effective website.

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Web Style Guide Resources (Updated!)
The Web Style Guide at http://www.webstyleguide.com/ is a start-to-finish guide on how to organize, structure, and create a website. The following pages provide excellent information on how to organize a website:

 

• Information Architecture
  • Organizing Your Information
  • Site Structure
  • Presenting Information Architecture
• Interface Design
  • Navigation & Wayfinding
  • Interface Design
  • Information Design
• Site Structure
  • Semantic content markup
  • Site File Structure
• Page Structure
  • Site Design in Context
  • Page Structure and Site Design
  • Page Templates
• Page Design
  • Document Design
  • Visual Design
  • Sidebar: Visual Design Principles
  • Page Frameworks
  • Page Width and Line Lengths
  • Design Grids for Web Pages