A parallel document with the contents
in a linear, bulleted format transforms the material into a table of contents, which has an
author-centric point of view. Keeping these two versions side by side establishes a rough
check-and-balance environment to ensure that your site organization makes sense from
different perspectives.
Mind mapping
The term ???mind mapping??? (also known as ???idea mapping???) represents an alternative way
of organizing content. It is often used for raw idea generation in the first stages of planning
a new website (or a heavy-handed redesign), as it encourages free association and
rapid exploration of themes.
Mind mapping promotes a tree-like view of information, where subsidiary sections branch
out from the central anchor. Hierarchical diagrams trace the organization of content
through linear paths and assume that visitors will choose a single path and drill down until
they find their page. Mind mapping visually describes the sections more efficiently.
Figure 4-1 shows two corporate websites; the first is a simple 20-page site, and the second
represents a much deeper site with hundreds of pages of content (some nodes are hidden
in order to save space).
Pages:
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