The effectiveness of a site, or a group of sites, depends on many factors, but key among them is the ability to predictably locate the site and the content that you need within the site. The structure of a site or group of sites and the navigation inside and among sites are key to helping users find and share information and work together.

Depending on your role in the planning process, you may delve into your site structure and navigation at different levels.

• If you are a member of the IT group for your organization — and are not involved in planning the content in individual sites, but rather the overall framework for sites — use the following articles to plan site structure and navigation:

  • Determine paths for sites (Windows SharePoint Services) helps you decide which paths to use for your sites.

  • Determine sites and subsites needed (Windows SharePoint Services) provides information for site or application administrators who are creating sites.

• If you are an administrator of a site and simply want to work on the structure of your own individual site, use the following articles to plan site structure and navigation:

  • Determine sites and subsites needed (Windows SharePoint Services) provides information for site or application administrators who are creating sites.

  • Plan site navigation (Windows SharePoint Services) helps you design the navigation for your site.

  • Determine individual site content needs and structure helps you determine what to put in your site and how to organize the content so that it is useful.