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       Setting up your menus
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       Spend  some  time thinking about how your menus will be  set
       up.  Your BBS can be made to look as unique or as  "uniform"
       as  you like - you can choose a subjective  topology,  where
       the  menus are organised according to area of interest, or a
       functional topology,  where menus are organised according to
       their  function.  For example,  a functional topology  would
       group  all  message  areas  together  and  all  file   areas
       together,  whereas a subjective topology would perhaps group
       together  several message and file areas that were  related.

       The  diagram  below illustrates this by depicting  the  same
       systems using the two different topologies:

       FUNCTIONAL
                                         +----------Amiga messages
                 +---------Messages menu |
                 |                          +----------IBM messages
       Main menu |
                 |                       +----------Amiga files
                 +------------Files menu |
                                         +----------IBM files


       SUBJECTIVE
                                         +----------IBM files
                 +--------------IBM menu |
                 |                       +----------IBM messages
       Main menu |
                 |                       +----------Amiga files
                 +------------Amiga menu |
                                         +----------Amiga messages


       Alternatively,  you  could even use a combination of the two
       topology types.

       The  layout of your BBS is determined by how the  menus  are
       set up. In many cases a user will not realise that he or she
       is looking at a menu.  The best technique for creating menus
       is to create all the "low-level" menus first,  then the main
       menu, and then fill in between with the intermediate menus.