Designing for Information-Intensive Website
Hi. I am building a hunormous, informatin-intensive website, and truggling how to make it work on mobile.
The website has 5 content-based "sections", and I have come up with a "template" - for each section - which includes maybe 10-12 "sub-sections".
A generic example would be having a section called "Business", and then it would have things like...
- News
- Articles
- Analysis
- Briefs
and so on...
(I've got my Information Architecture pretty well mapped out, but my new website is akin to putting a library onto mobile. What will make my website succeed or fail is how well I can take a vast amount of data and make it easy to navigate while not hiding data people might be interested in!)
Have been looking at online newspapers like NYT, WP, WSJ, etc for ideas, but honestly, I have more information than they do!
Was going to have a hamburger menu which pops out a side drawer displayng content "Sections", and then when you click on a section (e.g. "Business") there would need to be another menu/side-drawer dislaying 10-15 "Sub-Sections" for the given "Section".
Not sure how to proceed...
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Is it a problem to have multiple levels/layers in mobile?
For example, let's say that I need to model this...
Business ===> Finance ===> Investing ====> Fixed Income
(section) (sub-sec) (sub-sec) (topic)
honestly, sounds like you are trying to cram multiple pages worth of content into a single page
nobody is going to read that
instead of a section with multiple sub-sections and more sub-sections, how about you have multiple pages with sections?
You lost me?! No, I am doing the exact opposite.... If a person wants to red about news, articles, analysis on "Fixed Income", then I will have a "topic" page JUST for the topic of "Fixed Income". I am trying to avoid lumping EVERYTHING on one page entitled "Business"
I want to allow people to drill-down to the specific topic of interest and not have to sort through an endless pool of unrelated info
multiple pages with a good index should do the trick
kinda wiki-style
Hey! This is a great question to post over in #discussions, as it's not a code-specific quesiton. If you'd like to continue the conversation please re-post over there