[WEB4LIB] What's good design? :-)

[Jennifer Geard]

Ian Chan wrote:
> BTW, nicely designed site ..: www.ltsa.govt.nz

Thank you, but please excuse me if my smile is somewhat wry. Our site has a
lot of things going for it, including good content and an established look
and feel. However we're currently costing design changes to remove frames,
lighten the graphics load and restructure its information architecture.

Which leads to a question: what are good ways of organising big websites?
Feel free to address issues of depth (my ideal is one click from the
homepage to the most topical or heavily-used content, two clicks to most
content and a maximum of three clicks to any point in the site), breadth
(how many links can you put on a page before you're just befuddling your
users) and ways of gathering topics to provide clear access. (Bonus marks
may be awarded for discussion of selection criteria for terms used in
headings. ;-)

Cheers,
  Jennifer