Determine the barum and section of the website
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We learned the CI image of the website theme and establish the website in the previous two articles. Is the following to enter a substantive design and production phase? The answer is: can't. Experience tells us that the establishment of a website is better than writing an article, first to form a good outline, the article can be clear, the level is clear; it is also a high-rise building, first design a frame drawing, in order to make the building structure reasonable.
Beginners (including myself :-), the most important mistake is: Determining the subject, start making it immediately. When you have finished production, I found that the website structure is unclear, the catalog is a population, and the content is a piece of Western. As a result, it is quite difficult to expand and maintain the website, but your website may waste it in this halfway, worse: you lose your confidence and interest in making homepage!
Therefore, we must consider the following three aspects before using the page:
1. Determine the column and section;
2. Determine the site's directory structure and link structure
3. Determine the overall style of the website
Today we first discuss "Determine the list of websites and the section".
After the subject of the website is determined, I believe that you have collected and organized many related information content. You must think that these are the best, definitely attract netizens to browse the website. But do you have the best, most attractive content in the most prominent position? Have you made a good thing in the layout of the substance?
I have seen many of the columns of the home page (main menu) is not the case. For example: There is a site that provides an animated material as the theme. Its master is: about the webmaster, this site navigation, animated treasure house, this site forum, this site message book, contact the webmaster. The website is written on this website and the copyright declaration (actually set this site as the first word). The most important, the most attractive animated material accounts for 1/6 in the master, and the word on the home page is not mentioned. I think that even if this site does have a lot of, beautiful animated material, it is difficult to attract the browser to continue to explore.
The essence of the column is the outline index of a website, and the index should explicitly display the body of the website. When you have a column, you should carefully consider it. The general website column is arranged to pay attention to the following aspects:
1. Keep remember to be tight of your theme!
The general approach is to classify your topic to classify and use them as the website of the website. For example, the column can be divided into animal animation, sign animation, three-dimensional animation, cartoon animation, etc., indicating the most recent updated animation on the home page. Remember: The number of theme columns takes an absolute advantage in the sum column, and such a professional, the theme is prominent, and it is easy to impress people.
2. Set up a recent update or website guide section
If your homepage does not arrange the layout recently updated content information, it is necessary to set up a "recent update" section. This is to take care of the common visitors and make your homepage more user-friendly.
If your home page is huge (more than 15MB), there are many hierarchies, but no search engine in the station, it is recommended that you set up the "Ben Guide" section. Can help beginners quickly find what they want.
3. Set a column that can communicate two-way communication
No need there are a lot, but must have. For example, forum, a message, an email list, etc., you can let the viewer leave their information. Some surveys show that the site that provides two-way communication is more affinity than simple sites with a "email me". 4. Set a download or common question to answer the column
The network is characterized by information sharing. If you see a large amount of excellent valuable information, you know you can download it once, not a page browsing the deposit. "Put your heart" set a data download column on your own homepage, you will get everyone's favorite. Some sites are in order to advertise the display, an article is also divided into a few pages, I think soon, I will eliminate the decline in the visit (personal opinion :). Also, if your site often receives the issue of netizens about a problem, you'd better establish a list of common questions to answer, which is convenient for netizens, can also save yourself for more time to learn.
As for other auxiliary content, such as about this site, copyright information, etc., may not be placed in the main column, so as not to dilute the subject. Summarize the above points, we have to pay the column, you need to pay attention to:
● Delete the column that is unrelated to the subject as much as possible
● Column of the most valuable content as much as possible in the column as much as possible
● As far as possible, visitors' browsing and query
The above is the column, let's look at the section. The edition is more than the concept of the column, and each section has its own column. For example: NetEase site is divided into news, sports, finance, entertainment, education and other layers, each of which has its own master. The general personal site content is small, only the master (main menu) is enough, no need to set up the block. If you don't think it is necessary to set the section, you should pay attention 1. There should be relatively independence in each section. 2. Edition blocks must be associated with each other. 3. The content of the section is to surround the subject. Regarding the section, mainly the problem of large ICPs such as portal sites need to consider, and Abie will not be discussed here.
