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When designing and developing software, it is critical to take into account the limitations of the technology employed, especially hardware—things like computers, boxes and other physical devices. But there’s another aspect to hardware that should be taken into account and is often overlooked: the user.

It starts innocently enough. You need a database connection string and to know which tables are safe to cache, and there’s just no sense in putting that in your source code. Right? I mean, why put hard-coded stuff in your programming language?

Q: The web team at our company wants me to figure out the best way to add a 6th level of navigation to our website. Is the best way to do this to add this level of navigation sub-nested under the 5th level on the left-hand side of the page?