If content is king, then content layout must be the royal family. Which bits of information are important and how do they relate together? As the site already has lots of content, it is now time to decide how much of this info to show at once, and how best to navigate between it.

Certain sections are much more important than others with this site, and depending on why you are here, you will have different interests and want to see specific relevent and pertinent data to your needs. On the whole, most people are here to look at my portfolio and the things that I do – and so communicating this is my most important responsibiliy. As the portfolio itself has so many varied categories, it would be best to show on the front page only the most interesting and largest  sections – such as web and graphics – so that people have a quick access point to what they want.To get to the heart of how I want to promote the content, it is important to understand what people want to look at – and how that affects their next move around the site.

Certain sections are obviously essential – such as Contact and About – these communicate rudimentary information that has to be available site wide. For contact we have the choice of showing a contact page, or even just contact details in the footer. Same with About -it would be best to show some about information all the time – prefereably with a link to more information, best served with it’s own page.

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