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This page gives a simple introduction to the concept of site planning:
Planning and preparation
The content of your site must fit the purpose of the site and the
design must match the message. Think of your web site as a gateway
to your organisation or what your organisation is trying to achieve.
Try to remember that 66% of project time should be spent on preparation
of the site.
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Building structure maps
Structure maps are demonstrations of how the user can navigate the
site. The structure map is a floor plan of how the information will
be laid out, the ways of getting to that information, and the different
relationships between the information.
Here is an example of a simple structure map.
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Navigation
Getting lost in a maze of web pages can be easy to do if the
site is poorly planned. A user should always know where they
are in a site and how they got there. A good site should have
a series of signposts along the way to reassure and inform
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Quality control
Think about quality control procedures to make sure you catch
any problems before you get too far into designing the web
site. Your quality control systems should have 3 main stages.
You should check:
- Navigation Structure - ensuring your navigation makes
sense,
- Links - ensuring all the links on the web site work, the
content reads properly and images download, and;
- Security - ensuring it is impossible to hack into your
own system through the web site.
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For further information you can download our Site
Planning (58 KB) guidelines here as a pdf.
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