Information Architecture - planning out a web site From W3C Wiki
Traditionally, the planning stage of a web site (or any project)
can be a little stressful. Everyone has an opinion about how a
web site should be built, and often their opinions will conflict
with one another. Your number one goal on any web site should be
to build something that’s useful for the people who will be
using it. It really doesn’t matter what your boss says, what
that guy down the hall with a doctorate in software engineering
says, or even what your personal preferences are; at the end of
the day, if you’re building a web site for a particular group of
people, their opinion is the only one that matters. This Web
Standards Curriculum Table of contents article is going to look
at the early stages of planning out a web site, and a discipline
that is commonly referred to as Information architecture, or IA.
This involves thinking about who your target audience will be,
what information and services they need from a web site, and how
you