Thanks for this quesiton Julie,

I find having resources arranged/categorized in some intuitive 
cluster/grouping to be helpful. 

For example, the following clickable menus at the top of the following NIH 
& CDC Resource pages facilitate navigation

http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/resources.htm

You can find an overview of online design principles at
http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/

and Jakob Nielsen's useit.com
http://www.useit.com/

Roberta McKnight, PhD, RN 
Continuing Professional Development & Evaluation Studies (CPDE)
School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
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That's how the light gets in.
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Hi Everyone,

My question today is about using websites that list resources. There are
a lot of them out there and we use them to find information, research,
curricula, best practices, etc. I would like to know what you think
helps make these sites easy to navigate and most helpful to you.

For example: 

Annotations: 
Do they help? Long ones/short ones? Do you read them or just click on
the links?

Categorizing: 
What works best? Do you differentiate between curricula and single
lesson plans? Or between research reports and articles? Should resources
be cross-referenced?

Links to Other Resource Lists:
How far do you want to go?

I'm sure there are other issues, so please answer whatever you feel is
relevant to helping each other create resource sites that are easy and
useful.

All the best,
Julie

Julie McKinney
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