Before you start building any web page, no matter how simple or complex your project plans to be, it’s good to determine the needs of your website first. The design and needs of your project will often determine how you organize your site and start building it.
The first thing to do is determine who is going to be using your website. What are their needs? What should they be attempting to accomplish?
This is often done by creating a user persona which checks to see what a typical person looks like.
Based upon what the person will need to do, you can start to devise the content, and thus files that they will need, and begin to determine how to organize that data.
Logical Organization
Logical organization covers several different topics and includes everything from how we’re going to name our files, create our navigation, and name our links.
The idea is for us to make it easier, intuitive if possible, for our visitors to use the website. To do this, we can create a logical organization that follows one of several common patterns.
Look to the users of the site to start figuring out what pages need to be there, and how they should be organized.
Determining Your Project Needs was originally found on Access 2 Learn
