Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation
Asterisk - Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation:
I’m really questioning the traditional “home down†way a site map is presented and how that hierarchical visualization (and often times the groupings themselves) drives our design, content and navigation. The concept of “home†is a valid one, although the idea that it’s first, or “at the top†isn’t really accurate in many cases. It make more sense to visualize it at the center, as kind of a “hubâ€.
Alternatives to a “traditional” site map and navigation include:
- proper meta data (particularly labels and page titles) for search relevancy
- related item grouping and linking
- Indexes
- links within content
- faceted classification and corresponding navigation
- folksonomies
- personalized taxonomies
- a homepage that acts less like a landing page and more like an information hub (or site map - oh the irony)
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