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8. July 2008, 07:09:32

lanej0

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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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15. July 2008, 10:57:37

yehudab

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A 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 ..."

16. July 2008, 10:04:25 (edited)

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chrismills

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Originally posted by yehudab:

A few small typos:



Fixed - thanks for pointing them out.
Chris Mills
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Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com

10. November 2008, 19:56:05

Gileno

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

10. November 2008, 21:20:31

dorward

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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.
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk/

11. November 2008, 08:08:13

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chrismills

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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.
Chris Mills
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com

3. April 2009, 17:50:22

Erinyes

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

21. April 2009, 23:23:16

lanej0

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Specifically 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).

22. March 2010, 03:12:35

leangoro

Posts: 3

Great article!

For the question to search another band site, I've found a Portuguese band called "The Fly" that plays U2. Ok, they have a Blogger page, but it reminded me about one thing that I find interesting in a page: a survey, concerning to future work of the band.
Did I get the essence of the question?

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