Corporate website

Organize a large company website so it stays easy to navigate

A structured multi-page site for an organization with several business areas, several audiences, and enough material that finding things becomes the hard part.

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Past a certain size a company website stops being a set of pages and becomes a filing problem. The information exists; the difficulty is that each visitor has to reach their part of it quickly.

So most of the work is architecture — what the top level is, what sits beneath it, and where next year's service, document or announcement will go.

Signs a small-business structure has run out

Two or three of these together usually mean the arrangement, not the amount of content, is what visitors are struggling with.

Your services no longer fit on a page each.
Different audiences need different entry points.Customers, partners, applicants and press rarely want the same thing first.
People ask for documents you end up emailing.
More than one team wants to publish.
The menu has grown by addition rather than by plan.

What the structure has to do

At this size the navigation is the product. Almost everything else follows from it.

A top level a stranger can read
A handful of items someone can scan without knowing how the organization is arranged internally.
One home for each business area
Divisions, service lines or product families, each with room to grow inside its own section.
A predictable second level
So a new page has an obvious place before anyone starts writing it.
Documents beside what they describe
Specifications, price lists, forms and guides attached to the thing they belong to, rather than collected in one download bin.
Somewhere for updates, if someone will write them
A news section nobody maintains dates the whole site faster than having none.

Keeping a bigger site current

A large site fails by drifting rather than by breaking, and that is a question of ownership as much as of tooling.

Someone owns each section

The page nobody is responsible for is reliably the first one to go out of date.

Editing without a developer

Whoever writes the updates should be able to publish them.

One pattern per page type

A new service or location page inherits an existing layout instead of inventing one.

A way to retire things

Finished announcements and discontinued services need an agreed exit, or the site only ever grows.

When a business website is enough

A company with a handful of services, one main audience and one person keeping the site current does not need any of this. A business website covers it, costs less to build, and is far easier to keep accurate — and an accurate small site is worth more than a large one that has drifted.

The threshold is usually variety rather than headcount: several distinct business areas, several distinct audiences, or material that keeps arriving. Where none of those is true yet, this structure is overhead you would be maintaining for its own sake.

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