Am I building the right number of pages ?

Question

Hi Everybody, It is my first time here and actually I'm building my very first site. This site will be a portifolio of my jobs. As I'm a multimidia man .. lol and I'm not a teenager ... more lol , I have a lot of jobs to show.
I do graphic design, illustrations, advertising and recently I'm developing a new task to join to all of it, working with video. I want to go beyond the static images.
So I decided to build a website to promote myself. I started making the website with iWeb because I do all my work with Macs and I have no intentions in change plataforms for a website.
I already started and of course the problems and doubts as well. I've already divided the Main menu in 4 "places": Design, Advertising, Illustration and Video. Each one I will divide by clients and in each client I'm planning to put 3 or 4 jobs.
I already have the Design divided in 12 clients, then I realize the number of pages that I will have in the end of all. I started doubting if I was doing the right thing and run to the internet to read someones experience and I found at the Apple Discussion forum these posts:
"Hello, whenever I create a page in iWeb 08, it creates a corresponding title in the main menu of the website. Is there a way how to create a page and not to have it in the main menu? I want to link these pages myself...
For instance I want to have a folder full of 300 pages which I would link manually to a list of 300 titles in a text on a single page which does appear in the main menu.
I am not using MobileMe."
... and the answer of a person:
"If you want to have Page 2 of Site 2 be in the navbar of Site 1 add a blank page in Site one and name it the same as Page 2 of Site 2. Then in that page add an HTML snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "URL TO PAGE 2 OF SITE 2"; </script>
This will immediately redirect the visitor from the "dummy" page 2 in Site 1 to Page 2 in Site 2. In order to get the URL of Page 2 you will have to first publish Site 2, visit it and get the URL that way.
This will allow you to move between sites from the navbar in each site as if it were all one large site.
My Demo Sites are setup this way. The Contents page for each site is redirected to a separate Contents site which contains the index of all the pages in the three demo sites. That way I only have to change the index on the Contents site instead of doing it for each site individually."
I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong and more,,, if there is anything that I could do to have less pages and more navigability.
Thanks and sorry for the long post.

Answer 1

I'm wondering if I'm doing anything wrong
Are you saying the redirect isn't working or is there a better way than using a redirect?
Another way would be to put all the pages into one site but not necessarily have them all in the default navbar. You could have just the following three title pages in the overall navbar: Design, Illustrations and Advertising.
In each of those title pages you create your own hyperlinks to the pages that would support that area of your expertise. Those supporting pages would not have the default navbar shown but have a Text Based Navbar or just separate hyperlinks to link those common pages to each other and back to the title page.
See Roddy's Re: Sub Menus/Sub Pages in iWeb09 for more on the subject. This site also has info on that: http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebNavigationmenu.html.