We’ve talked in class about finding the balance on site design between having a site too deep (too many tiers) and too shallow (never passing tier 2). Yet I want to propose a question for the sake of being Devil’s advocate: Is it sometimes better to have a shallow site rather than organize information on a tier system?
My answer of course is “It depends.”
I’m not trying to make claims, but only point out possibilities. That said, for a low content site, it might be possible to maintain a shallow navigation system for the sake of presenting information. While our own sites are set up to present an argument and support it, other sites are more of a resource. This means they are there simply for having information as a resource, and sometimes not much information at that.
In this case I would say to keep a navigable system in place, with the homepage as a hub. This makes the navigation bar more of a filing system of the pages, instead of taking you to a section and then finding the file within that section.
But this is only a proposed idea for the sake of simplicity, and I don’t feel it applies all that often, but it does apply.
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