Should the small islands be on coasts siding the rift or on the rift itself?

Also what if I add a secondary plate in between having so a double rift one passing for the break inthe land on right continent and another among the islands?

I kind of liked the idea of the islands in between the two continents, the idea was that it was once a big continent that started to sink in the middle and ripped apart n two directions leaving pieces of land here and there in between .