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Oracle® Universal Content Management
10g Release 4 (10.1.4)
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How Deep Should the Hierarchy Be?

A deep hierarchy places information at multiple levels where information is heavily categorized. This works well for large organizations or any organization that anticipates growth on the Web site.

When planning the Web site, a lot of care should be taken in considering the hierarchy of the web pages within the site. The Web site hierarchy can be as deep as you want, and as deep as you want. You can create as many different sections from the home page as needed, and a section can contain as many sections as needed as well. However, the thing that should be kept in mind while designing the hierarchy is that while the structure can be as wide as needed (that is, sections can be nested to any depth), that this can create unwieldy URLs. The wider a section is nested in a Web site, then the longer the URL is to retrieve that information. Usually this is a trivial consideration, but for some designers this can be a major point.

Each section listed in the site hierarchy can have a primary page, and a secondary page. Since secondary pages are the pages that have replaceable content, the secondary pages are used to create multiple versions of the pages within a section. The primary page within a section is the page that opens for that section, it could be considered the landing page for that section.