Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (2nd Edition): Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (for 3rd edition please perform new search using ISBN: 0596527349)

Customers who bought this, also bought: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become Managing Reference Data in Business Databases Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions Mind Hacks Defensive Design for the Web Why We Buy

by: Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

Notify me when in stock

On-line Price: $59.95 (includes GST) Paperback package 486 20%Off Retail Price You save: $15.00 This is an old edition. There is a new edition of this book available. Old editions are not available for sale. Order will be confirmed by reply email before processing.	Retail Price: $74.95 Publisher: O'REILLY,Jul-2002 Category: WORLD WIDE WEB Level: B/I/A ISBN: 0596000359 ISBN13: 9780596000356
Add to Shopping Cart

Full Description

Today's web sites have moved far beyond 'brochureware'. They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now.

  Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together.

  By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build web sites and intranets that are easier to navigate and appealing to your users, as well as scalable and simple to maintain.

  Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition will help you:

              Develop a strong, cohesive vision for your site that makes it both distinctive and usable.

  Organize your site's hierarchy in ways that are meaningful to its users and that minimize the need to re-engineer the site.

  Create navigation systems so that users can move through the site without getting lost and frustrated.

  Label your site's content in the language of the users.

  Organize your site in a way that supports both searching for specific items and casual browsing.

  Configure search systems so that users' queries actually retrieve meaningful results.

  Manage the process of developing information architecture, from selling the concept to research and conceptual design to planning and production.

          Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition is a treasure trove of ideas and practical advice for anyone involved in building or maintaining a large, complex web site or intranet.