A Site Structure Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites
Viewing a Web site is like looking at a painting through a telescope: a visitor never has more than a small view of the entire thing. Even worse, Web sites differ from paintings by changing over time. Without special assistance, it's a challenge for a visitor to discover what has changed on a site since his or her last visit.
Therefore, create a page which lists recent changes to your site. List the changes in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent changes appear at the top of the page, where they will be easily visible.
This is one way to Reward Return Visitors, who are already familiar with your site and are interested in what changes have been made since their last visit.
Last updated 17 June 2002
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