Primary Organizational Schemes
Hierarchical
This is a common approach. There should be a clearly defined home page with links to the major sections or pages.
Concerns
- Shallow design: this refers to a site with too many pages or sections. Essentially this results in a site with too many hyperlinks per page. Humans can generally store 7 +- 2 units of information; try to organize your site so that there are 5-9 menu links per page. (This can be difficult!)
- Deep Design: this is the opposite issue from a shallow design. In such a site, the user would need to follow far too many "clicks" to reach their goal. As a general rule of thumb, any page in the site should be accessible with 3 "clicks".
Linear
This design forces the user to view pages sequentially and is excellent for a tutorial. Unfortunately many click-bait sites use this design also.
Random
There is no clear path or structure; this is rather uncommon.
