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.
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Hide pages that are not the highest priority and do not need to be displayed within the Mega Menu.
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Reasoning: This helps to achieve a more balanced and clean look of the menus overall.
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Top visited pages should be at a higher level within the navigation.
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Reasoning: These pages should be within reach of 1 to 2 clicks for quick and easy navigation.
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List pages in alphabetical order for pages where it makes sense
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Example: Sections such as Departments.
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Ensure pages are categorized where they would make the most sense to a visitor and are under the correct parent pages.
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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.
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Reasoning: Creating a linked page eliminates an unnecessary step for your users.
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Resources
- To learn how to move a page, please visit our article Move a Page with Site Map
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