Navigation design
June 01, 2005
Article about using patterns to improve web navigation
Improving Web Information Systems with Navigational Patterns
Posted by pj at 04:30 PM
February 03, 2005
Types of content currently published on the LTSN-01 website
This is a stab at a rough, top-of-the-head, first draft information architecture:
The site contains content describing or arising out of subject centre activities, past and current and also there are a number of resources aimed at our constituency which are published on the site. There is a caveat in that obviously many of our activities also produce resources.
I would like to make a distinction between information describing activities and the resources which we publish.
Further, there is a distinction between internally sourced and externally sourced information. A good example is funding opportunities. These typically cover external sources of funding. However, LTSN-01 also provides funding for or participates in research and developement projects, mini-projects and also workshops.
These inter-relationships between our areas of activity and the role of the website for promoting external opportunities needs to be reflected in the information architecture of the site and in the navigation elements.
Activities:
- funding opportunities (including workshop and mini-project calls)
- workshop promotion and booking
- contact details maintenance
- mini-project information and publication of reports
- news and events service
- publications:
-- newsletter
-- special reports
-- email bulletins
- pulication requests handling
- discussion boards
- research and development projects
- link of the month service
- cataloguing resources into BIOME
Resources:
- service for search of BIOME databases
- FAQ
- Glossary
- Free web courseware
- project reports and websites
- workshop resources
- newsletter
- special reports
Another issue is what to do with out-of-date content that we post. There should be some sort of archive area so that there's a clear delineation between current and older information.
We should maybe seek to archive and publish old email bulletins too?
There are two other issues that need to be decided upon as well, one is the issue of metadata for each page on the site. The other related matter is how each piece of content is classified, i.e. whether we should use MESH, METRO and whether we should be assigning terms from the Academy vocabularies to keep them happy.
Posted by pj at 03:29 PM
January 28, 2005
We probably need an intranet section for our site
Rather than have an approach where users and editors visit the same URI and get a different view of have a number of pages to visit for content admin purposes, we should have a distinct URI tree for content management tasks and related interfaces.
Posted by pj at 03:06 PM