Six Tips for Delivering Faceted Navigation within a CMS-Driven Website

Because of its overall power to deliver greater online business success, Faceted Navigation is gaining ground as a premium solution for e-commerce sites, libraries and content index-based sites that require users to browse through a high volume of content.

When combined with a robust content management and application development platform, Faceted Navigation offers the highest possible user satisfaction by enabling users to find what they are looking for quickly and easily.

In this best practices document, drawn from the experience of building a faceted navigation solution for a recent client, NLC outlines how to go about this kind of build, including:

• Making the right technology decisions to support your faceted navigation strategy
• Choosing the best architectural approach for your organization's needs
• Optimizing your presentation layer
• Using controlled vocabularies and CMS validation mechanisms to ensure data integrity
• Questions to ask yourself and your team in the requirements gathering process
• Ways to measure site performance, traffic and user satisfaction

Integrating a faceted navigation strategy within a content management system can be challenging. But if you follow the six tips outlined in this whitepaper, you will be well on your way to a successful implementation that integrates the benefits of this approach.