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.