Navigation consistency in web site families
Christian Eichinger, Michael Schrefl · 2009
Users accessing different but comparable web sites of some organizations, e.g., different departments of a university, expect them to have comparable content and provide for comparable ways to navigate through the content. To ensure such a similar look and feel, organizations may either define strict design rules to be met across all its web sites, with no room for site-specific modifications or, which is also frequent, only provide for a common entry point to entirely different sub-sites. Web Site Families offer a design approach that balances these two extremes. They allow specifying general requirements and they support site-specific modifications in that the general requirements can be specialized.