Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way
So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning. Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that looks shoehorned rather than fully integrated and will only require late-game revisions.
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Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design
A Pattern Language is a book about architecture that was written in the 1970s, before the Web as we know it was even conceived. But the book provides hundreds of valuable patterns for community planning and architectural design, many of which can easily be applied to online communities and social networking websites.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/18/applying-a-pattern-language-to-online-community-design/
Kill Procrastination – Tomorrow…
But first you need to commit to a life audit to forever change the way you do business. Will you share with me a few minutes of your precious time? I guarantee you’ll be glad you did. Today is a very special day. Today marks your last day of planning, to make sure that tomorrow is your first day of a new life that involves nothing but getting things done – on time, to a better standard than you could ever imagine.
Overwhelmed by desire? Unburdened by pressure, ready to commit to a ‘new you’ world order?
Get a pen. Get a piece of paper. And get these seven things done: