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When you start first creating a site tree, you will we usually play with various kinds of top-level groups, probably trying using some of the variations described in Common schemes to organize sites earlier in this chapter.
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A very common tactic is to combine some of these schemes as first- and second-level headings. For example, you may use audiences as your primary navigation, then activities topics within each of the audience sections:
- diagram of audience>activity tree
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| For parents | |
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| Primary schooling | |
| Secondary schooling | |
| Post-secondary | |
| For teachers | |
| Primary schooling | |
| Secondary schooling | |
| Post-secondary |
You may then decide to try replacing activities topics with, say, geography:
- diagram of audience>geography tree
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activities:
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| Choosing a school | |
| School transport | |
| Home schooling | |
| For teachers | |
| National curriculum | |
| Training & upskilling | |
| Employment & pay |
Flipping schemes
Another common tactic is to flip the primary and secondary navigation, to see if it fits the content better.
For example, the audience/activity topic tree that we tried earlier…
- diagram of audience>activity tree
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| For parents | |
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| Primary schooling | |
| Secondary schooling | |
| Post-secondary | |
| For teachers | |
| Primary schooling | |
| Secondary schooling | |
| Post-secondary |
…could be flipped to become an activity>audience topic>audience tree:
- diagram of activity>audience tree
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| Primary schools | |
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| For parents | |
| For teachers | |
| For administrators | |
| Secondary schools | |
| For parents | |
| For teachers | |
| For administrators |
We may do the flip, think about it, and decide that it won’t work for our purposes (perhaps the content doesn’t fit as well, or we’re sure that it will be confusing for users).
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