There's more than one way to organize a web site.
Content-based web sites (there are other kinds, but we won't go into that here)
are traditionally organized hierarchically. A main category branches out into
sub-categories which in turn branch into sub-sub-categories. (If we're building
our own web site we'll sub-categorize until we've covered all the pertinent information.
If we're being aided by the sort of web site generator being examined her, we'll
be told to re-think our categories such that there won't be more than three levels
of sub-categories.) But although years of studying and working in hierarchically
structured schools and work places have led us to believe that there's no other
way to structure information, numerous other possibilities exist. The metaphor
of search which has becomes (to a large part, thanks
to the web) a central concept of our post-industrial society posits a robust alternative
to the reigning model of the hierarchical organization of information, but other
models exist as well.
Go to: Don't stray too far, or
Go to: But of course you can have a list of sites,
or
Go to: Template isn't a dirty word, or
Go to: Doing a lot with very little, or
Go to: Templates from hell.