After
deciding on the content of your site you need to decide
on the framework of the site and how it is all going
to fit together (site architecture).
This is a very important stage as it is also the bases
of the navigation system for your site.
First you need to make an organisational scheme where
by you group content together by common characteristics
and workout how to get your web site user from point
A to point B in the quickest and easiest way.
To do this first you need to list all the content you
are going to have on your site.
Once you have done this you need to get some index cards
and place each content item onto a separate index card.
Next you need stack the cards in piles of items that
you think belong together.
Once this is done you need to find higher similarities
in the cards and pull these cards together to make larger
piles of cards. To make a site easy to navigate it is
best to keep each content item within three mouse clicks
of the main page, so try not to stack the cards anymore
than 3 levels deep.
Now you need to name each pile.
By now you should have a logical organisational scheme
that should be easy for a user to navigate.
