“Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (3rd Edition) by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld is an excellent addition to the library of anyone who is involved in designing web sites. Web site navigation is important to the web marketer and search engine optimizer, too, so this book will benefit them as well.
Although it’s somewhat like a text book, it’s easy to read and understand the concepts presented. There are many, many great real-world examples of different approaches to web navigation presented – both good and bad. Also included are some great ideas on how to work through your own web site and create a navigation scheme which will work for your visitors/customers.
I think I will most benefit from the tips and tricks of organizing information and getting potential users to assist in that organizing. Who better to help decide how the navigation is going to work than those who are going to use the web site most?
I highly recommend picking up this book and giving it a thorough read. I’m going to use the concepts I learned and apply them to our corporate Intranet redesign project which we are planning to start in the next few months.
It’s published by O’Reilly and available for purchase from their web site or from Amazon.
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