6. Site Structure
Site structure refers to how you organize your website's content. A website often
consists of content on a variety of – related – topics, presented on posts and pages.
Site structure deals with how this content is grouped, linked and presented to the
visitor.
Struktur situs mengacu pada bagaimana Anda mengatur konten situs web Anda.
Sebuah situs web sering kali terdiri dari konten pada berbagai topik – terkait –,
disajikan pada postingan dan halaman. Struktur situs berkaitan dengan bagaimana
konten ini dikelompokkan, ditautkan, dan disajikan kepada pengunjung.
7. The Importance Of Site Structure
- For Human Visitors
Smooth understandable user interaction and experience
- For Search Engine
Good sitelinks, improved crawling, prevents competing between internal pages.
8. Before We Dig Deeper
Types of Website Architecture
- Database model (dynamic approach based on user interest and experience - social media)
- Sequential model (user can travel back and forth sequence, some news site or small business
site that has few pages)
- Matrix model interconnect all the parent pages (categories pages) with sub pages (product
pages) and we usually find it in (huge) ecommerce site.
- Hierarchical model uses a home page, main category pages, subpages, and child pages within
subpages to distribute the website structure -> wordpress by nature
9. When We Should Consider Site Structure ?
Before We Designed Website and Creating
Pages.
10. Little Detour To How Wordpress Lets You Organize
Wordpress Posts Type :
- Pages
- Posts
- Attachments
- Revisions
- Navigation Menu
Taxonomy :
- Hierarchical (Categories)
- Non Hierarchical (Tags)
12. How To Organize Website Structure
Let’s Have A Game - Let’s Figure Out What Kind Of Web This Is
Brand
Hotels & Resorts
Yachts
Weddings
Meetings
Residences
About
Languages
Travel By Interest
Location
Upcoming Locations
Hotel Reserve
Spa & Shop
Offers & Programs Travel Partners
Luxury Cruises
Real Weddings Story
Wedding Consult
Location
Location
13. How To Organize Website Structure
It’s Ritz’s Website
Hotel.com
Hotels & Resorts Yachts Weddings Meetings Residences About
Languages
Travel By Interest
Location
Upcoming Locations
Hotel Reserve
Spa & Shop
Offers & Programs
Travel Partners
Luxury Cruises Real Weddings Story
Wedding Consult
Location Location
Location
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18. Conclusion
Site structure can help users and robots to surf, browse easier.
Good site structure will help us better map our content using taxonomy
available in wordpress.
Yet, in design terms, 3 click rules from Steve Jobs is very much related with a
good site structure
Good site structure will help you create a memento for your users. This relate
with information scent theory and foraging theory.