1. Web Design and Development
Design – Website Structure

2. Learning Intention
I will learn about the structure of websites

3. Website Structure
The design of a website should show the type of navigational structure that will be used.
The two most common structures are
linear
hierarchical
The design should show the direction of each of the links between pages

4. Linear Structure Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
Linear structure is the simplest and is usually only used for very small websites
Pages are visited in a step-by-step order

5. Hierarchical Structure
Page 1
Page 2
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 3
Page 7
Hierarchical structure used for larger websites
Helps organise pages into sub categories

6. Categorise these websites
Linear
Hierarchical
BBC News
Amazon
Ebay ‘checkout’

7. Success Criteria
I can describe linear and hierarchical website structures.