Design
Overview - Theme Structure
Having ascertain
our website's focus, we explore possible site structuring
ideas within our theme. To further
emphasis the previous theme conception example, we can take
a look at a typical directory structure.
When it comes
time to list our site with a directory, we need to place it
in the most appropriate category. Starting from the top of
the directory, we navigate through the directory tree like
this:
TOP > SUB
CATEGORY > SUB CATEGORY > SUB CATEGORY
We logically enough want to place our site in the
appropriate
category. You should be able to see now, how directories
structure through logical placing of subjects and topics. The purpose
and the theme combined is what our site is advertising and
we are naturally enough targeting people who are seeking
related information on the theme we have to offer.
With a
focused theme of our website, we neatly address the wants
and needs of our target audience. When you
address 'content issues' , you'll want to generate pages
with loads of valuable information as they will act as doors
into our website. You'll need to
organize our web site by keeping on-topic, something that
can become quite difficult as your website evolves.
Taking a
hypothetical domain name of "playingoutside.com" (using our
most important keywords), we could typically structure our
site with pages like this:
- http://www.playingoutside.com/swings.html
- http://www.playingoutside.com/slide.html
- http://www.playingoutside.com/sandbox.html
- http://www.playingoutside.com/picnic_tables.html
- http://www.playingoutside.com/walking_trails.html
- http://www.playingoutside.com/...
By naming our
pages logically (e.g. "swings.html") we can instantly tell
what the sub-theme is about. This will help keep us focused
and bodes well for good search engine indexing and ranking. A correctly
themed structure will help you maintain clear architecture
between the different areas of your site.
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