FIGURE 2.4

 FIGURE 2.4

 a gardening home page with a hierarchical structure.

FIGURE 2.5 your hierarchy takes you to the fruits page.

Selecting of  fruits takes you to yet another menu – lime page, where you have still more categories from which to choose (see figure 2.6). from there, you can go up to fruit, back to the home page, or down to one of the choices in this menu.

Note that each level has a consistent interface (up, down, back to index), and that each level has a limited set of choices for basic navigation. Hierarchies are structured enough that the chance of getting lost is minimal. This especially is true if you provide clues that the chance of getting lost is minimal. This especially is true if you provide clues that the chance of getting lost is minimal. This especially is true if you provide clues above where up is; for example, an easy way to find particular bits of information. If that use is one of your goals for your visitors, using a hierarchy might work particularly well.

FIGURE 2.6

from the fruits page, you can find the soft fruits page.

Avoid including too many levels and too many choices, however, because you can easily annoy your visitors. Having too many menu pages results in :voice-mail syndrome.” After having to chose from too many menus, visitors might forget what they originally wanted, and they’re too annoyed to care. Try to keep your hierarchy two to three levels deep, combining information on the pages at the lowest levels (or endpoints) of the hierarchy if necessary.