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I’m trying to figure out the best way to build this site in EE and wondered if anyone has any suggestions on how I could go about structuring it.

I’ve been looking into structure but I haven’t used it before so I’m not sure how well suited it is to something like this.

Here is a rough sitemap.

- Communities
      + City
          = Community
                - Floor Plans
                      + Floor Plan 1
                          = Title
                          = Summary
                          = Image
                      + Floor Plan 2
                          = Title
                          = Summary
                          = Image
                - Community description
                - Site plan
                - Features
                - Neighbourhood
                - Price list
- Register
- Tours
- Customer Services
      + Landing Page
      + Calculator
      + Moving Tips
- About
      + Landing Page
      + Philosophy
      + Careers
- News

There will probably be about a dozen cities and each will have a handful of communities within it.

I’m a bit confused on having communities both above and below cities.  Are cities being organized into a higher-level grouping?

Communities is just the name of the nav item, if you clicked it it would take you to a list of all communities in all cities.

So you would see a list with Communities 1-4 from the example below. If you went to Toronto you would see 1 & 2.

If you went to Community 1 you would see a landing page with a summary and a subnav with all its subpages.

* Communities
      + Toronto
          - Community 1
          - Community 2
      + Guelph
          - Community 3
          - Community 4

I’d look into Communities as a channel with Floor plans as a matrix field.  Cities as categories.

Or if more content is needed at the city level run those as a channel and use relationships to connect a community to a city.

Tough to make a really good call without seeing wireframes/design comps to really see the amount of content at each level.

From what I can see Structure is definitely suited to a project like this, just read through the documentation and make sure you get a solid understanding before building the site. Remember that Structure and normal Channel Entries can work together very well.