My Content has outpaced my Lastest Site Design

I am new to web design and development, and have just spent the past 18-24 months re-designing my website. Changes include Database-Driven Articles, More Dynamic Content, and a Social Media aspect including Profiles and Messaging.

My design is pretty simple, and uses a horizontal Navigation Bar with 5 Tabs each represnting a (Content) "Section".

When you click on a Tab, a "Section Home Page" is displayed with a vertical listing of "Article Summaries". (This can grow indefinitely.)

The problem is that over the last year or so, I have come up with probably 30+ legitimate Sections for my website?! And there is no way I can have 30 Navigation Tabs with my current design?!

I'm not sure what to do?!

I finished testing all of my code a few weeks ago and it works great. And then when I was starting to "plug in" actual Sections, Articles, etc into my "template", it occurred to me that I was screwed, because of the whole Section growth issue.

I am in *tears* because I feel like I just built a 2 bedroom house for the Brady Bunch!!

Any ideas how I can save things???

Sincerely,


Debbie

 

can you past your website URL to check... then i can give you a solution !

 

Since no URL, just some tips to share.

1 - Don't mix sugar with salt. They belong in different containers.
2 - If I were you, I'd redesign the whole thing, including the database, because now I know what's coming up, and what will come up after that, and after that, and after that. Maybe 3-4 levels of after that. If you go further, you might not finish your work.
3 - Well, you said your design is simple, it wouldn't be much of a problem now, wouldn't it?
4 - Rest assured, each Brady got a house with 2 bedrooms. Build more houses, work harder.
5 - How can you save things? By keeping it.

Sincerely,
Brady Boy.

 

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Categories contains a list of 'sections', sections contain a list of articles which are split into 10-20 article links per page with pagination included. Each article in the list of 10-20 takes you to that individual article. So this would look like:

Home > Categories > Section 1 > Page 1 > Article 1
Home > Categories > Section 4 > Page 6 > Article 24

I'd try and keep it limited to that though, the more you get people clicking through, the more chance you have of losing the visitor.

 

hmm…seems like I somewhat got your concern here mate! If your tabs are static then we can implement a JavaScript code wherein a user can click on the next button to navigate onto the next tabs, whereas if the tabs are Dynamic, we could go for ‘Paging’.