Overview

This best practice provides tips to get started building your information architecture.

Recommendation

Don’t build a sloppy organizational structure to support your information architecture strategy. 

• Start with a site map
• Use consistent titles 
• Don’t use confusing menu labels
• Don’t misspell tags
• Don’t have too many ‘parent’ pages
• Don’t have endless sub-categories
• Don’t hide your navigation tools
• Don’t keep old content that lacks value
• Don’t use overly restrictive permissioning
• Don’t duplicate information
• Don’t organize your content based on departmental silos