I have never seen a website built like this but I was thinking that rather than having a site that is 3 times the size of the current site, I would build it in panels. There would be 3 panels per page and enough distance between each panel so that the second and 3rd panels are not visible until 1 clicks on a link to get to the next panel or scrolls down. It would be built like this:

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Panel 1

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Panel 2

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Panel 3

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I hope that's clear.

The only challenge with this is that monitors range from about 17 inches to 30 inches so, to keep the second panel low enough the person with a 17 inch monitor will have a long way to scroll. I would like to try to discourage srolling but there is no way to stop it.

Has anyone seen any websites built like this. Surely I am not the only person who has thought of this. If so, please share the URL or at least the name of the site so that I can find it. If you aren't able to post it, please send me an e-mail.

I am not just looking for samples though. I would like a discussion of the merits of this approach to design, pros and cons really. Perhaps there is another way to solve this problem of having so much content on the page that it is overwhelming. There has got to be a better way to do it than to create so many pages that site maintenance becomes a nightmare.