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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lambdaZUG" data-source="post: 386149" data-attributes="member: 4666">Personally, I consider the reviews section the most useful resource on the site. Going by the placement of the links, however, it is the 17th most important section. Some things that have a higher structural priority than reviews:* D20 Topsites* Chat room* What is the d20 system?I don't know about how you use the site, but at least for me, the three most important assets this site has over any other are these: news, reviews and this board. Navigation structures should have more used things at a higher priority. (Furthermore I should note that the Reviews link is visually estranged from the Lastest Reviews link. They even are in different types of lists! Horizontal and Vertical)Do you really think that the reviews section is the 17th most used part of enworld? Furthermore, do you also think that it is only the 3rd most used guide here? Only slightly more used than the Guide to Free Adventures?Now to actually answer your question: "How could that be any easier?" From a user interface design standpoint you want the most important things closest to the visual focus. In the case of web pages, visual patterns are: center, then left side top to bottom, finally right side top to bottom (note: reverse these for RTL languages).  So, you put the most important resource in the center: the news. Then, working from top to bottom on the left-hand you order links from most important to least. The human mind tends to boggle after seven to ten "objects" (links, in this case) so try not to exceed that, dividing things up into sections if need be, but not exceeding 7 to 10 objects in each section. Less than that if you have more than, say, 3 sections. Within each section, order the objects from most important to least, and order the sections themselves likewise.To really say anything definite about how the site's navigational structure should be put together, I'd need some concrete statistics about how the site is used (server logs, say).Yeesh, that was longer than I had expected. Guess what I do for a living <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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