Learn more about the Best Practices for your CivicEngage Central website that will help you keep your site map optimized for your residents.

Best Practices

Move Pages Quickly and Easily: The Site Map tool allows you to see the page tree and expand to view the structure and organization of the full pages. Move pages with drag-and-drop by hovering over the page and dragging in live edit mode.
- Reasoning: This allows you to view page hierarchy and easily move pages as needed.
Use Mega Menus
Hide pages that are not the highest priority and do not need to be displayed within the Mega Menu.
- Reasoning: This helps to achieve a more balanced and clean look of the menus overall.
Top visited pages should be at a higher level within the navigation.
- Reasoning: These pages should be within reach of 1 to 2 clicks for quick and easy navigation.
List pages in alphabetical order for pages where it makes sense
- Example: Sections such as Departments.
Ensure pages are categorized where they would make the most sense to a visitor and are under the correct parent pages.
If you want to link to an external page on another website, create a linked page. Do not create a page and place a link within.
- Reasoning: Creating a linked page eliminates an unnecessary step for your users.

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