Overview

When considering your site structure you really want to ensure that it's satisfying your community goals while being logical, organized and uncluttered. 

Recommendation

• It is best to keep your top level navigation to the most important items and nest the child pages and channels below. 
• Keep the naming short and try not to exceed 5-7 top level pages/spaces, this will prevent the navigation from wrapping. 
• Make sure your topics are logical and intuitive so your users have an easy navigational experience. 
• Keep similar pages/spaces living together, no matter how popular or unpopular a page may be.
• When deciding whether to use a page or space determine if that area needs to be managed in any specific way. 
  • Should you feel that an area needs to have an administrator to monitor or manage members and content use a space otherwise a page will satisfy your needs.
• Channels should almost always be nested under a page to give the user a more visually appealing view of the content however if you feel that a channel needs to be exposed keep this under the main navigation and do not hide the channel. 
• Should you find one page/space has a lot of channels under it - consider creating a second page/space to host some of that information so not to overload a page with widgets. 
• The style guide, theme folder, site activity and administrator help should be kept hidden