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The Information Architecture Pyramid


My friend Susan Reetz asked about her site keywording. She had her site analyzed at the “Extreme Makeover: Website Edition” session at the MCA-I ProTrack conference in September and the presenter (Susan Price from MediaRich) noticed that her site pages had no keyword or other meta tagging. My friend’s web guy said “Oh, don’t bother [...]

Project Blogging is Not Easy


Well, its Sunday, which means the whole “project blogging” idea hasn’t happened. Not for lack of, well, not trying, but at least thinking about it.
I’m leading a team that is covering the 2nd National Latino Congresso in Los Angeles. We’re video recording almost every workshop, general session or dinner at the five-day conference. That’s about [...]

User Generated Content is a Myth


Who thinks of these terms? And why do we let them? User Generated Content (UGC) is less the buzzword than it was, oh say, 6 months ago. But I have yet to read anyone setting the record straight. So here goes: User Generated Content is a Myth. Beyond being a myth, User Generated Content is [...]

Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization


Check out this  post over at UIE’s Brain Sparks. It’s a re-publish of something from 2003 but has some good points.
My comment on the post is pointed at a missing reference: What role does “production value” or “macro design” have in audience acceptance of a web property’s design?

Choosing a Content Management System


Seth Gottlieb over at Enter Content Here has a very good, succinct post on choosing a content management system (CMS). Don’t know whether this topic is getting some recent traction because people are trying to spend money at the end of the fiscal year or planning to spend money next fiscal year.
I think an important [...]

These guys (almost) get it


A very web design-centric but good post here on the Web Design Process. It’s so close I can almost taste it!
The list of process steps are:

Know what you’re doing
Know what the site needs to do (Is this “Goal”?)
Know what the site’s visitors want (When did we figure out who the “Audience” would be?)
Get [...]

Broadcast is Dead. Long Live Broadcast!


I realized pretty quickly that quoting Mark Twain would be beyond cliche. But, did anyone hear this story on NPR the other night? There was a quote from political consultant Bill Buck who said YouTube is “a tremendously valuable way, not only now but into the future, for getting out whatever message you want to [...]

What’s in a name?


A colleague passed this post from SEOMmoz.org on to me — 11 Best Practices for URLs — and it seemed to tie the whole URL naming issue up with a nice little bow. The author even addresses the sub-optimal URLs (http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1422) they use for the site.
Besides not posting for weeks (yes weeks) I realized that, [...]

What to Know About Your Audiences


Bob Boiko, author of the Content Management Bible, has an excerpt from his forthcoming ebook about audience analysis in the latest Content Management Professionals (CM Pros) August 2006 newsletter.
I’m not sure I could have added much to his take on audience analysis. But without a good answer to “What do I want achieve?” you can’t [...]