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Web Site Organization and Variation

After completing your research, your next step is to plan your web site. You should decide:

How you want to divide your information into different web pages
How you want to organize those pages within your site

These are important decisions. How you organize and present your information gives physical form to your argument.

Dividing Your Information into Web Pages
You have a lot of choices as to how you can divide your research and argument into different pages on your site. Time, location, topic, and size are just a few of the general categories into which you can sort information. Different categories help you make different arguments. For example, a web site about the Black Hawk War could be organized chronologically, sorted by battle, or by groups of people involved in the conflict. How would each of these organizations help or hinder a viewer's understanding of the topic?

To begin, think about your information as if you were writing an outline for a paper. How would you divide up your material into major sections? How does each section support your argument? Now, think of another way you could divide the information (chronologically, topically, by location, etc.). Which system do you think will make more sense to your viewer?

No matter how you choose to divide your information up—each page should fit together to support your thesis. How do the ideas on each page connect to the others?

Web Site Organization
You're not just building different web pages, you're building a web site. You have to give your site an overall organization that is logical and easy to navigate. There are many ways to do this and building your site on
paper first will give you a chance to play with these organizational structures before you put time and energy into construction. Here are a few examples:

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