Website and Workflow Analysis

Before embarking on your website project, you should sit back and analyze your website.

• What page layouts are used?

  Often a website uses no more than two or three page layouts to display the different types of content. For example, a website might use a home page incorporating graphics and links to news items and products, a main page layout for pages containing the website's information, and a newsletter layout for displaying the company's press releases.

• What content types are there?

  Content can be categorized into types. For example, as well as the main body content, there may be: news, announcements, adverts, related pages, tips, notes, and so on. Each content type is usually created as standalone topic in Author-it, then assembled in Author-it Website Manager to build a page.