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Web Content Migration: Don’t Cry Over Sour Milk

I really like Gerry McGovern (why didn’t I look him up while I was in Ireland?); he always hits the nail on the head. And he drove it home again in his recent post Web content migration: disastrous strategy.
So many organizations think that a new technology solution will fix an old business problem. The only [...]

Is Webpage Navigation Leftist?

Should navigation for a website be on the left or right side? That was question posed by a friend.
One of our directors has a significant other who has been doing web work for us at a very reduced price. He tells us that the new site needs to have the menu selections on the right [...]

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 [...]

Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization

Check out thisĀ  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?

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 [...]