Re-structuring the Web Workers Kitchen
Looking at the home page for webworkerskitchen.co.uk, I see there is a need to re-structure the content to make it easier for people to use.
The navigation bar on the left of the window has a number of page names but these are not intuitive. I never get any feedback from users (possibly because I haven’t asked them for any !) so I dont know what people want to look for.
If I guess about use, I would say there are two kinds of use of the web site: (a) people who want a structured approach to learning about web design and (b) people who want to find out about specific things.
The site currently has both kinds of content. There are pages with a lot of links to other web sites. This is useful and convenient as a way of knowing where to go for what.
Other pages are geared more to explaining how to do things.
One of the problems with a site like this is that bits get added all the time. So, there is a lot of stuff in the right hand column about pages that have been added recently.
What I am thinking about now is changing the first menu item in the main folders bar from “Design links” to “Web Design - basics”. On that page I can go through the basics of planning, designing and working on a new web site. This structures the material according to the process of working on a web site.
The link lower down currently called “Web design” would handle material relating to specific aspects of web work.
I think also that some of the content might be transferred away from the web site into this blog.
I have relied a lot on links because I dont see the point of putting up writing about something if someone else has made a good job of the same thing on another site. Well that is what the www is all about - links.
If you are a user of webworkerskitchen.co.uk, feel free to comment and feedback on how best to organise the site and what you would wantto use it for.