iWeb :: Organizing by Sites
Posted: March 28, 2006

One of the common problems with designing a good web page is putting too much stuff into one place. Good design sense says to make your site look clean, and fresh. This applies to the overall site design as well (even on the back-end). The example below shows the menu at the top of my home page. As you can see, it looks very confusing and busy.

An easy way to clean up this messy menu is by organizing your pages into multiple web sites. I can break down the many pages into 4 categories: work, family, movies and other. In order to organize it into their various sites, we need to create the actual sites first. To do this, go to File | New Site. Simply name your sites appropriately. Repeat the process for as many sites as you would like, but remember... not too many! My new site design looks like this:

As you can seen, I have already moved my many pages into their respective site.

A word about accessing your sites: now that you have your site neatly organized into sub-sites, accessing your various sites can be a little confusing (at first). To access your main site (the first one in your list... "main" in my case), you would go to http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb (replacing username with your username). Accessing another site is nothing more than a matter of adding that site's name to the end of your main site's address. For example, if I wanted to visit the site "family" directly, I would go to http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/family. One thing to note: your site names are case-sensitive, so if you title your site "Family", you will enter it with a capital "F" in the address bar of your web browser.

So how does this organization affect the user's browsing experience? Check out the new (clean) menu below:


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