The navigation design will mainly focus on the social network aspect of the site, the main focus of the home page may be on video game news and article, but at its core this site is about social networking. This main navigation will be placed at the top of the page and be accompanied by a search bar. The links in this navigation will be; home, activity, members, groups, and forums.

The secondary navigation will be placed on the side bar; this navigation will not have a set height, because it will be filled dynamically based on categories. The user will have control over the categories and can create new categories freely. The categories can have sub-categories and the navigation will reflect that.

The website will use Wordpress as its platform with the Buddypress plug-in, Buddypress will give the use of many social network features. With Buddypress, users will be able to interact with each other and create their own personal space on the web page.

Since the content is almost all user generated, a numeric naming convention is used to keep file names clean and uniform, this will also keep permalinks “pretty”. The user will still be able to choose the posts or files title. The websites directory structure is mainly based on categories and sub-categories, and is very fluid.

• May 11 – Start learning Buddypress, and have an understanding by the 18^th.
• May 18 – Install Wordpress and Buddypress fresh, decided on features to use.
• May 25 – Design informational (back end) structure, and design content (front end) structure.
• June 1 – Create graphical skin and apply.
• June 8 – User testing, and fix problems and tweak minor design elements.
• June 15 – Enter beta, allow user registration and entry of new content from users.