I’m in the midst of paralysis by analysis. I can’t move on my site because I just can’t seem to settle on the right template/url scheme. I can see that there are many ways to do things and because of that - I can’t choose one.
I run a typical team-oriented fan site. My navigation would look something like:
home
fan zone
- chat room
- forums
- photos
Team
- roster
- schedule
News
- game day preview
- game day recap
History
- draft
- past seasons
- statistics
Resources
- links
- links
etc…
The problem is how to organize all this mess without duplicating templates into template sections everywhere, yet still have a descriptive urls. e.g.
mysite.com/game_day_preview/team_vs_team/
mysite.com/game_day_recap/team_vs_team/
mysite.com/history/1970/
mysite.com/team/schedule/
etc…
I am tempted to just follow the /template_section/template/title/ structure, but that would mean duplicating the same article template everywhere. Or, if I have only one template - how can I separate all the different topics into weblogs and have them show up in the right place?
I could really use a good discussion on how to efficiently layout a site like mine.