Web Design : Site Structure

A web site is usually made up of many pages. The first steps in designing a web site are to decide :

You will then need to decide how the pages will be linked together. You can use hyperlinks so that a person viewing the web site can move between the individual pages. You can also link your web site to other sites.

One way to show how your web site will be organised is to draw a diagram showing what will be on each page and how the pages will be linked. The diagram below shows how a web site for a football club could be organised.

The main page that the user starts at is the home page. The web site has been divided into five different sections which are club history, player statistics, team news, chat area and fixtures. In each section there are a number of pages. The arrows indicate links between the pages. The club will also make links to the web sites of other clubs that it will be playing. It hopes that in return these other clubs will create links to its web site.

Once the structure of the web site has been decided, you can start to create the individual pages. If there are a lot of pages to make then different people could work on each one. It is a good idea to make all of the pages on a site look similar. You can do this by using a standard page layout for each page.

GCSE ICT Companion 04 - (C) P Meakin 2004