Category Archives: Information Architecture

How to figure out what to call your "about" page — and other labeling fun

Friday, July 17, 2009

So I finally got around to cleaning up my categories. I’m still not sure I’m happy with them. I’d almost rather have more general categories and more specific tags (since sub-categories annoy me…who wants to dig through levels and levels of categories to find what you want?). But although tagging used to be de-rigueur, it [...]

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Content (organization) is king

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I laugh (inwardly, of course) when people ask me why they need an information architecture plan. Not because it’s not a valid question–it’s a GREAT question–but because the people who ask it are usually desperately in need of one.
You know these websites. When you visit them, you feel like you’re drowning in an enormous amount [...]

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7 Reasons to feature your content on your home page

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

I was on the phone with cj Madigan yesterday, and we got to talking about content-driven websites. Traditionally (if you can say traditionally, since the web is still young), companies have a main page that talks about them and what they’re doing, some additional pages about their products and services, and a blog. Nothing wrong [...]

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