Site-Design Tips

The skills outlined in the preceding examples are all you need to stitch multiple pages into a coordinated site. All you need now is a little guidance about ways you can organize information into a Web site. The remainder of this chapter offers tips for choosing a site design.

Building a Multipage Linear Site

In a multipage linear site, the pages and links are set up in a way that encourages the reader to read a group of pages in a particular order, from start to finish (see Figure 24.6).

Figure 24.6. The structure of a multipage linear site.

This design makes sense when the content your site delivers is made up mostly of medium-size ...

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