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| Storyboard | The process of developing and diagramming a site's structure that best matches your users' needs. |
| Balanced Hierarchy | A hierarchical tree that facilitates quick access to information and helps users understand how you have organized content. |
| Chunk | Short, uniformly-organized pieces of information that particularly lend themselves to web presentations. |
| Deep Hierarchy | A hierarchy with too many menu sections; becomes a navigational nightmare for the user. |
| Hierarchy | A graphical structure that flows from the most important or most general concepts down to the most specific or optional topics. |
| Linear Hierarchy | A hierarchy that is viewed sequentially--in a line; one right after the other. |
| Placeholder | A box that is sketched or drawn on your storyboard (page layout) to represent where a graphic, text or object will be inserted. |
| Shallow Hierarchy | A hierarchy with too few sections; becomes a massive menu on the home page. |
| Site Assessment | Evaluating the form and function of your website design. |
| Webbed Hierarchy | A web like hierarchial structure with non-traditional linking pages. |
| Site Map | A detailed structural outline of a website. |
| Flow chart | A quick sketch of the site's navigational structure. |
| Page layout | A detailed sketch of each page. |
