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By lanej0 anchor Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 07:09:32

6: Information Architecture - Planning out a web site

Before you even start building a web site, you really need to plan out its overall structure first, working out how many pages you need, which ones link together, etc. This forms the basis of Information Architecture, a discipline that Jon Lane will get you up to speed on in this article.

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By yehudab anchor Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 10:57:37

avatarA few small typos:
"Figure 1 gives an indication of this’this ..."
"... into slightly larger groupings’Figure 3 ..."
"... work out the visual design of it’the page layouts ..."

By chrismills O anchor Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 14:13:26

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Originally posted by yehudab:

A few small typos:



Fixed - thanks for pointing them out.

Post edited Wednesday, 16. July 2008, 10:04:25

By Gileno anchor Monday, 10. November 2008, 19:56:05

avatarHi, are you can tell what's tool you use to make web site map?

By dorward anchor Monday, 10. November 2008, 21:20:31

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Originally posted by Gileno:

Hi, are you can tell what's tool you use to make web site map?



Pencil, paper, whiteboard.

By chrismills O anchor Tuesday, 11. November 2008, 08:08:13

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Originally posted by dorward:

Pencil, paper, whiteboard.



Agreed. Or if you want to keep it all on computer, use a drawing tablet, or perhaps a program such as Omnigraffle. Or even notepad. Whatever works for you.

By Erinyes anchor Friday, 3. April 2009, 17:50:22

avatarConcerning a tool for making easy to read mind maps I would recomend xmind, it is free and easy to use.

By lanej0 anchor Tuesday, 21. April 2009, 23:23:16

avatarSpecifically for this article? Yeah, that's my handwriting in the first figure. After that, OmniGraffle (mac) from the OmniGroup (http://www.omnigraffle.com) with the WebFlow 2.0 stencil (http://graffletopia.com/stencils/265).

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