For the last day or so, I’ve been thoroughly going through tutormentorconnection.org, traversing its many paths and mapping them out. It’s been an incredibly useful thing to do – rather than wondering where the information finally ends, I now feel I know my way around the site and its related pages (the Tutor/Mentor Institute, Cabrini Connections). Here’s how tutormentorconnection.org is currently organized:
It’s a bit tangled up, right? Notice how Donate, in particular, is buried a few levels deep, and is actually located on another website.
So I dragged those little boxes around, reorganizing them into new categories (which everyone here calls “buckets”) that make sense for the amount of content the T/MC site has grown to contain. The first revision:
Which was a good effort, but as these things go, it’s now sitting next to me covered in red Sharpie. Krista provided some seriously helpful feedback, resulting in the current revision of T/MC’s sitemap:
I’m proud of the progress here. We’ve managed to reduce the site’s complex navigation to three main categories: About, Get Involved, and Resources. The hierarchy is much clearer; under Get Involved, for instance, a user may choose to “Give Help” or “Get Help”. Special consideration has been given to making the name of each bucket and page as unambiguous as possible, and key features of the site, like Donation, Newsletter Signup, and Contact, have been given permanent, prominent locations in the site’s sidebar and footer. As always, this is a work in progress, so everything might change at any time, but to me, this looks like a good candidate for tutormentorconnection.org’s new structure.
