Information architecture
The information architecture describes the information structure of the site and how users will navigate through the site.
The site map
The website structure designed by the information architect determines what pages and site areas will need to be created to give site a hierarchical structure. The site map describes the structure of the site and determines what pages and site areas are required for site. For example:
- Home page
- News Page
- Products Page
- Product Site Area 1
- Product Site Area 2
- Product Site Area 3
- Downloads Page
- Support Page
Content types
The content types identified by the information architect determine what authoring templates are required for authoring system. For example, site might require the following content types:
- Section home pages
- News articles
- Employee profiles
- Product information
- Photo galleries
- Legal disclaimers
Content profiling and taxonomies
The information architect is responsible for determining what taxonomies are required to allow users to profile content. This information determines what content will be displayed within menu components.
This is an example of a taxonomy for a financial services company:
- MetaBank taxonomy:
- Financial
- Banking Solutions
- Interest Rates
- Personal
- Business
- Corporate
- News
Parent Create a design document
Related
Work with pages
Site areas and site frameworks
Work with authoring templates
Presentation templates
Profiling strategies
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