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Websites are Upside Down

Websites are Upside Down

The classical structure of a website is that of a tree. The trunk is the homepage. From there you climb the tree, upward and outward until finally you reach the leaves. That is how we design websites. That is how we test websites.

It’s just not how we use websites.

Author Mark BakerPosted on 2012/01/12Categories Every Page is Page OneTags Google, hierarchy, the Web, trees, web pages, web sites9 Comments on Websites are Upside Down

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