[thelist] Creative Sitemaps

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at iop.org
Thu Jul 1 10:15:46 CDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:03, Rob Smith wrote:
> > Site maps are important for their simplicity, not creativity. Stick 
> > with a simple list of pages broken down by section and you should be 
> > fine.
> 
> ...are boring and everyone does it.

But they're not there to entertain! They're there to help the user to
find what they're looking for at a point of crisis (they're lost).

Two books that may help:
* Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Rosenfeld and
Morville
* Defensive Design for the Web by 37 Signals

Tim
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