A Site Structure Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites
The larger a site becomes, the harder it is to find a particular page. This is particularly true for sites with flat structure (i.e., pages not grouped by topic). When a site contains a dozen pages, it's not hard to search manually for a particular page, but this becomes a chore when the site contains thirty (or three hundred) pages.
Therefore, split your site into topics. For each topic, provide an index page with links to that topic's pages.
If a topic becomes large, it can be split into subtopics, each with its own index page. However, be wary of creating more than two levels of index pages, because doing so violates the Three Jump Maximum rule.
Last updated 18 June 2002
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