Web Site Architecture
Why information architecture?
You've got a lot of stuff you want to put on the web, and that you think people might want to look at.
You could just stick it all on a single page. That's the simplest way. But if there's a lot of information, it will take too long to load and people won't be able to find what they want easily. Also, not all the information may be relevant to what I need, and it will take a lot of work to filter it out.
So we need to:
- Split our stuff up, and
- Provide ways for people to find their way through it to get what they want.
That's information architecture.
Important decisions start here.
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Information Architecture Contents
- Information Architecture models
- Some common patterns for web site information architecture
- Information Architecture 101
- Information Architecture for web sites 101
- Navigation models for web sites
- Navigation models for web sites
- Case study: Business Improvement Network
- Refreshing the site of this business networking organisation involved a new clean design and improvements to copy and information architecture
- Case study: Bytecon
- In this case study, I compressed a multi-page site into a single-pager that delivers a clean, concise message.
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