Grouping content: a crash course in site organization
To lay the groundwork for your site, you won't use Joomla. The back of a napkin will do fine. Draw up a site map to lay out the primary content chunks and their relationships. View your site from a user's perspective. What do you think your visitors will primarily look for, and how can you help them find things fast and easily?
Designing a site map
To create a site map, first collect all of the information you plan on having on your website and organize it into a simple and logical format. Let's have a look again at the CORBA website you built in the last chapter. The following is the basic outline of the site you've created up to now:
As site maps go, this is a very basic one. News, Art Lectures ...
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