Organizing a Larger Site

For complex sites, sophisticated layout and graphics can help organize and improve the look of your site when used consistently throughout all of your pages. To see how you can make aesthetics and organization work hand-in-hand, let’s look at examples of navigation (and thus underlying organization) for a few sites that present a large volume of information to several different audiences.

Figure 27.6 shows the main page of Amazon.com, specifically with the side navigation selected. Amazon is in the business of selling products, plain and simple. Therefore, it makes sense for Amazon to show product categories as the main navigational elements, as shown in this figure.

Figure 27.6 Amazon.com shows product categories as primary navigation elements.