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We can now sketch out some new structures to test. Let’s take a look at the most common ways sites are organized, and some common tactics that can help us create our own trees.

 

Roughing out alternative trees

When we “rough out” a site tree, it means that we create a quick-and-dirty site structure in an hour or less.

The point of this is to do the minimum work to convey an idea to others, so we can then decide whether it’s worth fleshing out enough to test. We don’t want someone to spend an entire day creating a detailed site tree, only to have the team decide that they’re going a different direction.

To rough out a site tree:

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  •  ss of rough trees

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