Sector supports a variety of Information Architecture principles - one is to organise your content hierarchically. Hierarchical content is stored in pages which are organised in a menu.
The concept of hierarchical content works well with:
- Linear content structure and user movements (book-like content, navigating from A to B to C)
- 'Layered' information architecture (information in layers, starting with an introductory top layer).
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Known limitations:
- Scalability - a menu hierarchy fails if there are too many items per level, or if the weight between branches is unbalanced.
- Hierarchical content assumes the principle of 'one page, one position'. This often does not work in a web context - if the principle is broken, context is lost.
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